diào
fish
A metal 釒 hook 勺; 勺 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 釣
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to fish with a hook and bait | ||
to dupe | ||
Diaoyu Islands | ||
Diaoyu or Senkaku Islands between Taiwan and Okinawa (administered by Japan), also known as the Pinnacle Islands | ||
to angle for fame (idiom) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[t]ˤewk-s | tewH | diào | to angle |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.4826% of movies
1895th most common character in movies
2305th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+91E3 |
Shuowen | “釣,鉤魚也。从金,勺聲。” |
Sources
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