麯
qū HSK7

yeast, leaven

曲 麴 qū
variant 麯
yeast
fermentation starter; leaven made of grain and mold used to brew alcohol or ferment soy products
曲 麴 qū
variants 麯,麹
Qu
a Chinese surname; for the character's non-surname meanings such as yeast or leaven, see 曲 qū

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,066th most common 141.6 per million
Movie subtitles
974th most common 109.3 per million appears in 31% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
28.3 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
49.9 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
曲𱋐
Strokes
17
Unicode
U+9EAF

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)