曲折 qūzhé
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qūzhé
adjective
complicated; winding
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 弯曲 (CC-CEDICT '曲折'; Guoyu '曲折' 1) -
qūzhé
adjective
to be avoided
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 隐情 (Guoyu '曲折' 2) -
qūzhé
noun
a setback
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 挫折 (Guoyu '曲折' 3)
Contained in
- 迂迴曲折 intricately curved; indirect and complex
- 迂回曲折 meandering and circuitous; complicated developments that never get anywhere
- 曲折纹(曲折紋) a zigzag pattern
- 盘旋曲折(盤旋曲折) lit. windy and circuitous; difficult
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷一百四十七 志第一百 儀衞五 Volume 147 Treatises 100: Ceremonial Guards 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 8
- 第二回 Chapter 17 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 4
- 國風‧衞‧氓 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Mang The Book of Songs 詩經 — count: 3
- 卷十七 Scroll 17 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 卷三十八 志第二十八 地理二 Volume 38 Treatises 32: Gepgraphy 2 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 2
- 卷三十 兿文志 Volume 30: Treatise on Literature Book of Han 漢書 — count: 2
- 第四十七回 Chapter 47 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 卷十九 志第九 樂一 Volume 19 Treatises 9: Music 1 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 2
- 卷15 志第10 音樂下 Volume 15 Treatises 10: Music 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 2
- 卷二十三上 志第十三上 儀衛上 Volume 23a Treatises 13: Ceremonies 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 2
Collocations
- 曲折折 (曲折折) 曲曲折折 — The Scholars 儒林外史, 第十四回 Chapter 14 — count: 8
- 曲曲折 (曲曲折) 曲曲折折 — The Scholars 儒林外史, 第十四回 Chapter 14 — count: 8
- 中曲折 (中曲折) 吾益知吳壁中曲折 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《魏其武安侯列傳》 Biographies of the Marquis of Weiqi and the Marquis of Wu'an — count: 3
- 曲折三 (曲折三) 自第一行有曲折三人陪後門 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷二十三上 志第十三上 儀衛上 Volume 23a Treatises 13: Ceremonies 1 — count: 3
- 曲折如此 (曲折如此) 不知曲折如此 — History of Song 宋史, 卷三百九十 列傳第一百四十九 李衡 王自中 家愿 張綱 張大經 蔡洸 莫濛 周淙 劉章 沈作賓 Volume 390 Biographies 149: Li Heng, Wang Zizhong, Jia Yuan, Zhang Gang, Zhang Dajing, Cai Guang, Mo Meng, Zhou Cong, Liu Zhang, Shen Zuobin — count: 3
- 曲折多 (曲折多) 其曲折多戰鬥之容 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷81 列傳第46 東夷 Volume 81 Biographies 46: The Dongyi — count: 3
- 曲折上 (曲折上) 奕曲折上之 — History of Song 宋史, 卷三百五十五 列傳第一百十四 賈易 董敦逸 上官均 來之邵 葉濤 楊畏 崔台符 楊汲 呂嘉問 李南公 董必 虞策 郭知章 Volume 355 Biographies 114: Jia Yi, Dong Dunyi, Shang Guanjun, Lai ZhiShao, Ye Tao, Yang Wei, Cui Taifu, Yang Ji, Lu Jiawen, Li Nangong, Dong Bi, Yu Ce, Guo Zhizhang — count: 3
- 盖曲折 (蓋曲折) 此蓋曲折聲韻之巧 — Book of Southern Qi 南齊書, 卷五十二 列傳第三十三 文學 Volume 52 Biographies 33: Men of Letters — count: 2
- 音韵曲折 (音韻曲折) 音韻曲折 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十三 志第十三 樂下 Volume 23 Treatises 13: Music Part Two — count: 2
- 要之曲折 (要之曲折) 言要之曲折 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷十七 Scroll 17 — count: 2