河曲 Traditional form: 河曲 Pinyin (reading): Héqǔ Definitions: Hequ county in Xinzhou 忻州 ( Xīnzhōu), Shanxi Characters: 河 - river, stream; the Yellow river 曲 - crooked, bent; wrong, false Traditional characters: 河 - river, stream; the Yellow river 曲 - crooked, bent; wrong, false