曲笔

Traditional form:

曲筆

Pinyin (reading):

qūbǐ

Definitions:

• falsification in writing
• misrepresentation in written history
• deliberate digression

Characters:

• 曲 - crooked, bent; wrong, false
• 笔 - pen, pencil, writing brush; to compose, to write; Hanzi stroke

Traditional characters:

• 曲 - crooked, bent; wrong, false
• 筆 - pen, pencil, writing brush; to compose, to write; Hanzi stroke