勾 - Dong Chinese dictionary

gōu, gòu

hook

勾 originated as a variant of 句. 口 represents the sound and 丩 represents the meaning and the sound.

Components

jiū

join

口 Sound component

kǒu

mouth

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 口 than it was in ancient scripts.

Definitions

gōu

hook, join, connect; entice; to attract; to arouse; to tick; to strike out; to delineate; to collude; variant of 鉤|钩[gōu], hook

Gōu

surname Gou

gòu

see 勾當|勾当[gòudàng]

Most common words with 勾

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (0 verified)

Sound component in 5 characters (3 verified)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.9676% of movies

1817th most common character in movies

2034th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	4
Unicode	U+52FE

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