麴
qū

yeast

麴 qū
leaven
(bound form) yeast or mold used in making alcohol, soy sauce, or vinegar; fermentation starter
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

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Synonym

Frequency
Character
Written text
7,541st most common 0.026 per million
Movie subtitles
5,554th most common 0.020 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.030 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.262 per million

Details
Simplified
麹
Strokes
19
Unicode
U+9EB4

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