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  *鉤* | 鉤* | *鉤
to hook / to sew / to crochet / hook / check mark or tick / window catch
HSK 7-9
hook
HSK 7-9
to couple; to link; to hook together / (fig.) (preceded by 與|与 + {entity}) to establish contact (with {entity}); (Tw) to collude (with {entity}) / (fig.) to link (marketing efforts with production etc); to peg (welfare payments to inflation etc); to tie (remuneration to performance etc) / hook (on which to hang sth); latch hook; coupling
HSK 7-9
shackle (U-shaped link)
window hook / window latch
(dialect) unfinished business / trailing sound
fishhook
fishhook
crochet hook / crochet needle
variant of 魚鉤|鱼钩
to cut ties / to disconnect / out of touch
a hook / to make contact with sb
(of fish) to bite; to take the bait
vertical stroke with a hook at the end (in Chinese characters)
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)
(bird species of China) grey-sided scimitar babbler (Erythrogenys swinhoei)
to take the bait
aquiline nose / Roman nose
to tick / to check / tick mark / check mark
iron hook at the end a long pole
hook
steelyard hook
suspended hook / hanging hook / hanger
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
(downwards-right concave hooked character stroke)
tapeworm (Taenia solium)
(bird species of China) red-billed scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus ochraceiceps)
stroke in Chinese characters
to explore / to investigate / to audit (accounts, books etc)
leptospirosis
erhua variant of 上鉤|上钩
barb / (football) bicycle kick; overhead kick
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
erhua variant of 後鉤|后钩
(dialect) to leave unfinished business
pinky swear
erhua variant of 掛鉤|挂钩
(bird species of China) black-streaked scimitar babbler (Erythrogenys gravivox)
(bird species of China) streak-breasted scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus ruficollis)
stroke in Chinese characters
horizontal stroke with a hook at the end (in Chinese characters)
beef tapeworm
steal a hook and they hang you, steal the whole country and they make you a prince (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子)
(bird species of China) black-crowned scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus ferruginosus)
(bird species of China) black-necklaced scimitar babbler (Erythrogenys erythrocnemis)
(bird species of China) Taiwan scimitar babbler (Pomatorhinus musicus)
clothes hook
erhua variant of 衣鉤|衣钩
erhua variant of 釣鉤|钓钩
to hook onto / to hitch onto / to catch onto
erhua variant of 鉤|钩
heartbreak grass (Gelsemium elegans)
(bird species of China) Tahiti petrel (Pseudobulweria rostrata)
(bird species of China) large woodshrike (Tephrodornis virgatus)
(of sth sharp) to snag (one's stockings etc)
to crochet
to crochet
boathook
(bird species of China) rusty-cheeked scimitar babbler (Erythrogenys erythrogenys)
(bird species of China) large scimitar babbler (Erythrogenys hypoleucos)
erhua variant of 魚鉤|鱼钩


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