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Chinese symbol for “crankshaft”

曲轴
qū zhóu
Traditional: 曲軸
crankshaft

The closest CC-CEDICT match for crankshaft is 曲轴 (qū zhóu), defined as: crankshaft.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

曲 qū
crooked, bent; wrong, false
radical 73 ⽈ · 6 strokes
轴 zhóu
axle, pivot, shaft; axis
radical 159 ⾞ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 曲轴.

WordPinyinMeaning
歌曲gē qǔsong
曲线 (曲線)qū xiàncurve; curved line
扭曲niǔ qūto twist; to warp
戏曲 (戲曲)xì qǔChinese opera
主题曲 (主題曲)zhǔ tí qǔtheme song
单曲 (單曲)dān qǔsingle (recording industry)
轴承 (軸承)zhóu chéng(mechanical) bearing
主轴 (主軸)zhǔ zhóuaxis; principal axis (in mechanics, optics, botany etc)

See also: Japanese symbol for “crankshaft”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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