鉤 — Chinese character
鉤
gōu
hook, barb, sickle; to hook, to link
- Pinyin
- gōu
- Radical
- 167 ⾦ (Gold)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 釒 句
- Formation
- ideographic — A metal 釒 hook 句; 句 also provides the pronunciation
- Simplified
- 钩 𰽭
- Japanese
- 鉤 as a kanji
鉤 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 17
- Mencius 6B.1
- Zhuangzi Joined Toes
- Zhuangzi Horses' Hoofs
- Zhuangzi Opening Trunks
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
- Zhuangzi The Secret of Life
- Zhuangzi Knowledge travels North
- Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
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.