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曲折

qū zhé

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

曲折 (qū zhé) means "winding; (fig.) complicated". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 曲折 means

1. winding
2. (fig.) complicated

The characters in 曲折

• 曲qǔtune; song
• 折zhéto break; to fracture; to snap

Words containing 曲折

• 盘旋曲折pán xuán qū zhé(idiom) (of a road etc) to wind circuitously
• 迂回曲折yū huí qū zhémeandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere…

Where 曲折 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · qiū–qǔ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read qū zhé correctly.
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