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Chinese symbol for “misinterpret”

曲解
qū jiě
to misrepresent; to misinterpret

The closest CC-CEDICT match for misinterpret is 曲解 (qū jiě), defined as: to misrepresent; to misinterpret.

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Characters and stroke order

曲 qū
crooked, bent; wrong, false
radical 73 ⽈ · 6 strokes
解 jiě
to explain; to loosen; to unfasten, to untie
radical 148 ⾓ · 13 strokes

Other Chinese words for “misinterpret”

WordPinyinMeaning
误读 (誤讀)wù dúto misread; (fig.) to misunderstand

Related words

Other words that share a character with 曲解.

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)
了解liǎo jiěto understand; to know about; to learn about; to find out
解决 (解決)jiě juéto solve; to resolve; to settle (a problem); to eliminate; to wipe out (an enemy, bandits etc)

See also: Japanese symbol for “misinterpret”.

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.