亅

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

亅 (radical 6 亅+0, 1 stroke, cangjie input 中戈 (LI))

1. hook
2. KangXi radical 亅

References

• KangXi: page 85, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 224
• Dae Jaweon: page 173, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 28, character 3
• Unihan data for U+4E85

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Cantonese

Hanzi

亅 (Yale kyut3)

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Japanese

Kanji

亅 (Radical)

1. "barb" radical (はねぼう)
2. feathered stick

Readings

• On: けつ (ketsu)
• Kun: かぎ (kagi)

References

JIS: 502D Kuten: 4813 Shift JIS: 98AB EUC-JP: D0AD Frequency: radical Nelson: not listed

New Nelson: 66 Halpern: 3347 Halpern Learners: not listed Heisig: not listed Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 0a1.4

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Usage notes

Appears only as a radical.

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Korean

Hanja

亅 (hangeul 궐, revised gwol, McCune-Reischauer kwŏl)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

亅 (pinyin jué (jue2), Wade-Giles chüeh²)

1. A vertical line with a hook, usually read as 竖勾 (shùgōu).

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Vietnamese

Han character

亅 (quyết)