竖钩 (豎鉤)
shù gōu
Pinyin
Definition
竖钩 (豎鉤)
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- vertical stroke with a hook at the end (in Chinese characters)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 hook (on which to hang sth)
- 2 to couple
- 3 to link together
- 4 to establish contact with
- 5 hook
- 6 coupling links (e.g. between two railway coaches)
- 1 anyway
- 1 to erect
- 2 vertical
- 3 vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)
- 1 to erect (a tent etc)
- 2 to prick up (one's ears)
- 3 to raise (one's eyebrows)
- 4 to stick up (one's thumb)
- 5 to turn up (one's collar)
- 6 (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)
- 1 to hook
- 2 to sew
- 3 to crochet
- 4 hook
- 5 check mark or tick
- 6 window catch
Idioms (6)
太公钓鱼,愿者上钩
- 1 Jiang Ziya is fishing, if you want take the hook (idiom, refers to early sage 姜子牙 fishing with no bait and the hook above the water); to put one's head in the noose
姜太公钓鱼,愿者上钩
- 1 Jiang Ziya is fishing, if you want it, take the hook (idiom, refers to early sage 姜子牙 fishing with no bait and the hook above the water); to put one's head in the noose
横七竖八
- 1 in disorder
- 2 at sixes and sevens (idiom)
横挑鼻子竖挑眼
- 1 to pick on sth incessantly (idiom)
- 2 to criticize right and left
窃国者侯,窃钩者诛
- 1 steal the whole country and they make you a prince, steal a hook and they hang you (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子)