屈

屈 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 尸山山 (SUU), four-corner 7727₂, composition ⿸尸出)

• 倔, 堀, 掘, 啒, 崛, 淈, 煀, 镼, 誳 (𫍮), 鶌 (𫛵), 崫, 窟

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 301, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7669
• Dae Jaweon: page 597, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 970, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5C48

Historical forms of the character 屈
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Originally 𡲶. Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *klud, *kʰlud) : phonetic 出 (OC *kʰljuds, *kʰljud) + semantic 尾 (“tail”). 尾 became 尸 in clerical script.

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屈

1. to bend; to flex
2. bent; crooked
3. to condescend
4. to submit; to yield
5. to subdue; to cause to submit
6. to treat unjustly; to wrong
7. to be in the wrong
8. (Cantonese) to frame; to accuse

   你唔好屈得就屈喎！ [Cantonese, trad.]
   你唔好屈得就屈㖞！ [Cantonese, simp.]

   nei⁵ m⁴ hou² wat¹ dak¹ zau⁶ wat¹ wo³!

   Don't frame as long as there's an opportunity to do so!

9. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Short for 屈機／屈机.
10. (Mainland China Hokkien) to restrict; to restrain; to constrain
11. a surname

    屈原  ―  Qū Yuán  ―  Qu Yuan (Chinese politician and poet of the state of Chu during the last years of the Warring States period)

屈

1. ^† short
2. ^† to use up; to exhaust
3. ^† Alternative form of 倔 (“stubborn; obstinate”)
4. ^† Alternative form of 崛 (jué, “exotic”)
5. ^† Alternative form of 崛 (jué, “to rise abruptly”)

屈

1. Only used in 屈狄 (quèdí, “a kind of noblewomen's clothing in ancient China”).

(Jōyō kanji)

1. to bend
2. to submit, to yield

• Go-on: くち (kuchi)、ごち (gochi)
• Kan-on: くつ (kutsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: かがむ (kagamu, 屈む)、かがまる (kagamaru, 屈まる)、かがめる (kagameru, 屈める)

屈 (eumhun 굽을 굴 (gubeul gul))

1. hanja form^? of 굴 (“bend, flex”)
2. hanja form^? of 굴 (“bent, crooked”)
3. hanja form^? of 굴 (“crouch”)

屈: Hán Nôm readings: khuất, quất

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