鈎

鈎 U+920E, 鈎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-920E ← 鈍 [U+920D] CJK Unified Ideographs 鈏 → [U+920F]

See also: 鉤 and 钩

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 鉤

Etymology

Variant of 鉤, via variation/corruption of phonetic 句 → 勾.

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 勾 (OC *koː, *koːs) – a metal hook. 勾 also has meaning of “hook”, from its semantic 勹, hence a metal (金) hook (勾, 勹).

Han character

鈎 (radical 167 金+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 金心戈 (CPI) or XX金心戈 (XXCPI), composition ⿰釒勾)

1. hook, barb
2. sickle
3. stroke with

Descendants

• 钩

See also

• 鉱

References

• KangXi: page 1298, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40220
• Dae Jaweon: page 1801, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4179, character 6
• Unihan data for U+920E

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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 鈎 – see 鉤. (This character, 鈎, is a variant form of 鉤.)

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Japanese

Kanji

鈎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

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