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Chinese symbol for “flexing”

挠曲
náo qū
Traditional: 撓曲
to bend; flexing; deflection

The closest CC-CEDICT match for flexing is 挠曲 (náo qū), defined as: to bend; flexing; deflection.

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Characters and stroke order

挠 náo
to yield; to scratch, to disturb
radical 64 ⼿ · 9 strokes
曲 qū
crooked, bent; wrong, false
radical 73 ⽈ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 挠曲.

WordPinyinMeaning
阻挠 (阻撓)zǔ náoto thwart; to obstruct (sth)
不屈不挠 (不屈不撓)bù qū bù náounyielding; indomitable
百折不挠 (百折不撓)bǎi zhé bù náoto keep on fighting in spite of all setbacks (idiom); to be undaunted by repeated setbacks
挠头 (撓頭)náo tóutricky; problematic
挠痒痒 (撓癢癢)náo yǎng yangto tickle
抓挠 (抓撓)zhuā naoto scratch; to mess about with
歌曲gē qǔsong
曲线 (曲線)qū xiàncurve; curved line

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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