Chinese Character Wiki

鉤

gōu

hook

A metal 釒 hook 句; 句 also provides the pronunciation

Components
釒 meaning component

釒  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

句 sound,meaning component

句  Sound Meaning component

jù, gōu

  

sentence

Evolution

鉤 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
鉤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鉤 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
鉤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

钩 (鉤) 

gōu

hook, barb; sickle; stroke with; to hook; to sew; to crochet; hook; check mark or tick; window catch

Most common words with 鉤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

钩

to hook

上钩

to take the bait

钩子

hook

脱钩

to cut ties

鱼钩

fishhook

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[kˤ](r)o

kuw

gōu

hook


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.5444% of movies

2180th most common character in movies

2254th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

钩𰽭

Unicode

U+9264

Shuowen

“鉤，曲也。从金，从句，句亦聲。”


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