竖钩 (豎鉤)
shù gōu
Pinyin

Definition

竖钩 (豎鉤)
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shù gōu
  1. vertical stroke with a hook at the end (in Chinese characters)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

guà gōu
  1. 1 hook (on which to hang sth)
  2. 2 to couple
  3. 3 to link together
  4. 4 to establish contact with
  5. 5 hook
  6. 6 coupling links (e.g. between two railway coaches)
héng shu
  1. 1 anyway
shù
  1. 1 to erect
  2. 2 vertical
  3. 3 vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)
shù qǐ
  1. 1 to erect (a tent etc)
  2. 2 to prick up (one's ears)
  3. 3 to raise (one's eyebrows)
  4. 4 to stick up (one's thumb)
  5. 5 to turn up (one's collar)
  6. 6 (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)
gōu
  1. 1 to hook
  2. 2 to sew
  3. 3 to crochet
  4. 4 hook
  5. 5 check mark or tick
  6. 6 window catch

Idioms (6)

太公钓鱼,愿者上钩
tài gōng diào yú , yuàn zhě shàng gōu
  1. 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
Jiāng tài gōng diào yú , yuàn zhě shàng gōu
  1. 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
héng qī shù bā
  1. 1 in disorder
  2. 2 at sixes and sevens (idiom)
横挑鼻子竖挑眼
héng tiāo bí zi shù tiāo yǎn
  1. 1 to pick on sth incessantly (idiom)
  2. 2 to criticize right and left
窃国者侯,窃钩者诛
qiè guó zhě hóu , qiè gōu zhě zhū
  1. 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)