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鉤

鉤

See also: 鈎 and 钩

Translingual

Han character

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

References

  • KangXi: page 1302, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40319
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1804, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4188, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+9264

Chinese

trad. 鉤/鈎
simp. 钩

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鉤
Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (句) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
勾 *koː
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

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kəu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kəu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kəw/
Li
Rong		 /ku/
Wang
Li		 /kəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gōu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鉤
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gōu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[kˤ](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. *[t] 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
  2. sickle
  3. stroke with
  4. (Chinese calligraphy) a hook (such as in ㇠, ㇆, ㇚, or ㇟)

Coordinate terms

Japanese

Kanji

鉤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Kanji in this term
鉤
かぎ
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Noun

鉤 ‎(hiragana かぎ, romaji kagi)

  1. hook

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

鉤 (câu)

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