diào
fish
A metal 钅 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)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 钓
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) |
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 | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9493 |
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