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Chinese symbol for “curvature”

曲度
qū dù
curvature

The closest CC-CEDICT match for curvature is 曲度 (qū dù), defined as: curvature.

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Characters and stroke order

曲 qū
crooked, bent; wrong, false
radical 73 ⽈ · 6 strokes
度 dù
degree, system; manner; to consider
radical 53 ⼴ · 9 strokes

Other Chinese words for “curvature”

WordPinyinMeaning
弧度hú dùradian; arc
弯曲度 (彎曲度)wān qū dùcurvature; camber
曲率qū lǜ(math.) curvature

Related words

Other words that share a character with 曲度.

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)
制度zhì dùsystem (e.g. political, adminstrative etc); institution
程度chéng dùdegree; level; extent

See also: Japanese symbol for “curvature”.

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.