屈 hanja, meaning bend, read 굴 (gul)

Reading

굴gul

bend, flex; bent, crooked; crouch

굽힐 굴gupil gul

Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 굽힐 (gupil) is the Korean for bend, and 굴 (gul) is the reading. Say 굽힐 굴 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.

Strokes
8
Radical
⼫ 44
Beyond radical
5
Mandarin
qū
Japanese on
kutsu
Japanese kun
kagamu

Vocabulary

Words that use 屈

Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.

屈服굴복gulbok

surrender, submission

Character by character bend + clothes

Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.