勾

See also 句

Translingual

Etymology

Variant/corruption of 句, via 口 → 厶. In present form 勹 (“hook”) + 厶.

Also Simplified from 冓 in 购 (from 購) and 沟 (from 溝).

Han character

勾 (radical 20 勹+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 心戈 (PI), four-corner 2772₀)

1. hook, join, connect
2. entice

Derived characters

• 鈎 (钩) (from 鉤) (as variant of 句)
• 沟 (from 溝) 购 (from 購) (as simplified form of 溝)

References

• KangXi: page 150, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2500
• Dae Jaweon: page 339, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 256, character 3
• Unihan data for U+52FE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

勾 (Yale gau1, au1, ngau1)

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Japanese

Kanji

勾

Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: のぞく (nozoku), まがる (magaru), かぎ (kagi)

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Korean

Hanja

勾 (hangeul 구, 귀, revised gu, gwi, McCune-Reischauer ku, kwi)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

勾 (pinyin gōu (gou1), gòu (gou4), Wade-Giles kou¹, kou⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

勾 (câu, cấu, cú)