釣 — Chinese character

Pinyin

diào

Radical

167 ⾦ (Gold)

Strokes

11

Components

釒 勺

Formation

ideographic — A metal 釒 hook 勺; 勺 also provides the pronunciation

Simplified

钓

Japanese

釣 as a kanji

釣 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Analects 1 · Zhuangzi 9

• Analects 7.26
• Zhuangzi Self-Conceit
• Zhuangzi Autumn Floods
• Zhuangzi Tien Tzŭ Fang
• Zhuangzi Contingencies

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.