鉤

See also: 鈎 and 钩

Translingual

Han character

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

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

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Chinese

trad.		鉤/鈎
simp.		钩

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gōu (gou¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngau¹ / gau¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gou
    • Wade–Giles: kou¹
    • Yale: gōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gou
    • Palladius: гоу (gou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ngau¹ / gau¹
    • Yale: ngāu / gāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngau¹ / gau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngeo¹ / geo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɐu̯⁵⁵/, /kɐu̯⁵⁵/

Note: gau1 - rare.

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• Middle Chinese: kuw

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/
Bernard Karlgren	/kə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gōu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gau1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[kˤ](r)o/

  (Zhengzhang): /*koː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鉤
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gōu
Middle Chinese	‹ kuw ›
Old Chinese	/*[kˁ](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

(deprecated template usage) 鉤

1. hook, barb
2. sickle
3. stroke with
4. (Chinese calligraphy) a hook (such as in ㇠, ㇆, ㇚, or ㇟)

Coordinate terms

• (basic character strokes) 點／点 (diǎn), 橫／横, 豎／竖 (shù), 提, 捺 (nà), 撇, 折, 鉤／钩 (gōu), 彎／弯 (wān), 斜

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Japanese

Kanji

鉤

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō), く (ku)
• Kun: かぎ (kagi), かける (kakeru)

Kanji in this term
鉤
かぎ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Noun

鉤(かぎ) • (kagi) 

1. hook

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 鉤 (câu)

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