鉤

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See also: 鈎 and 钩
鉤 U+9264, 鉤
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9264
← 鉣
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鉥 →

Translingual

Han character

鉤 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 金心口 (CPR), four-corner 87120, composition ⿰釒句)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1302, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40319
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1804, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4188, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+9264

Chinese

trad. 鉤/鈎
simp. 钩
2nd round simp. 勾
nonstandard simp. 𰽭
alternative forms 句

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鉤
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (句) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
勾 *koː, *koːs
鉤 *koː
鴝 *koː, *ɡo
句 *koː, *koːs, *kos, *ɡo
夠 *koː, *koːs, *kʰoː
枸 *koː, *koːʔ, *koʔ
軥 *koː, *koːs, *ɡo
狗 *koːʔ
苟 *koːʔ
岣 *koːʔ, *ko
笱 *koːʔ
玽 *koːʔ
耇 *koːʔ
豿 *koːʔ, *qʰroːɡ
敂 *koːʔ
怐 *koːs, *kʰoːs, *qʰoːs, *kos
雊 *koːs
竘 *kʰoːʔ, *kʰoʔ
齁 *qʰoː
呴 *qʰoːʔ, *qʰos
蚼 *qʰoːʔ, *ɡo
豞 *qʰoːs
訽 *qʰoːs, *ɡoːs
佝 *qʰoːs
拘 *ko
駒 *ko
眗 *ko
跔 *ko
鮈 *ko
痀 *ko
蒟 *koʔ, *kos
絇 *kos, *ɡo
邭 *kos
劬 *ɡo
朐 *ɡo
鼩 *ɡo
斪 *ɡo
翑 *ɡo
葋 *ɡo
姁 *ɡo, *qʰo, *qʰoʔ, *qʰos
欨 *qʰo, *qʰoʔ
喣 *qʰoʔ
煦 *qʰoʔ, *qʰos
昫 *qʰos

Pronunciation

Note: gau1 - rare.
Note:
  • kau - vernacular;
  • ko͘/kio - literary.
Rime
Character 鉤
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古侯切
Baxter kuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kəu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kəu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kəw/
Li
Rong 		/ku/
Wang
Li 		/kəu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		gōu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gau1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鉤
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		gōu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kuw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*(r)o/
English hook

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 鉤
Reading # 1/1
No. 7062
Phonetic
component 		句
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		鉤
Old
Chinese 		/*koː/

Definitions

鉤

  1. hook; barb (Classifier: 個／个 m c)
    魚鉤／鱼钩  ―  yúgōu  ―  fish hook
    將個袋掛喺個鉤度 [Cantonese, trad.]
    将个袋挂喺个钩度 [Cantonese, simp.]
    zoeng1 go3 doi6-2 gwaa3 hai2 go3 ngau1 dou6
    Hang the bag on the hook
  2. (obsolete) sickle
  3. checkmark (Classifier: 個／个 m)
  4. to hook
  5. to crochet
  6. to sew with large stitches
  7. (literary) to investigate
    鉤沉／钩沉  ―  gōuchén  ―  to recover or uncover obscure information
  8. (Chinese calligraphy) a stroke with a hook (such as in ㇠, ㇆, ㇚, or ㇟)
  9. (regional, card games) jack (J)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 鉤兒 (“jack (playing cards)”)
Variety Location Words
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 鉤兒
Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 鉤, 十一
Zhengzhou 鉤, 十一
Xi'an 丁子
Xuzhou 丁鉤兒, 甲鉤兒
Lanyin Mandarin Ürümqi 丁鉤兒
Southwestern Mandarin Wuhan 鉤子, 鉤, 鉤鉤, 孫子
Guiyang 鉤鉤, 鉤, 夾鉤
Liuzhou 歐
Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 丁鉤
Yangzhou 茄鉤, 傑鉤
Cantonese Guangzhou 積
Hong Kong 積
Taishan 積
Wuzhou 積
Yulin 鉤
Gan Nanchang 鉤
Lichuan 鉤子
Pingxiang 鉤子, 鉤
Hakka Yudu 鉤子
Huizhou Jixi 丁鉤
Jin Taiyuan 鉤子
Southern Min Xiamen 丁
Shantou 丁
Puning 丁
Wu Shanghai 茄勾
Shanghai (Chongming) 斜鉤
Suzhou 茄杠

Coordinate terms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

鉤

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: く (ku)
  • Kan-on: こう (kō)
  • Kun: かぎ (kagi, 鉤)、かける (kakeru, 鉤ける)

Etymology

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Kanji in this term
鉤
かぎ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
鈎

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Pronunciation

Noun

鉤(かぎ) • (kagi) 

  1. hook

References

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

鉤 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鉤: Hán Nôm readings: câu

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