勾
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to attract; to arouse; to tick; to strike out; to delineate; to collude; variant of 鉤|钩[gou1], hook
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 勹 +2
- Structure
- Upper-right enclosure 右上包
- Traditional
- 勾
- Common rank
- #1,525
- Unicode
- U+52FE
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Formation & memory
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How 勾 is formed
Components 勹 厶
How to remember it
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Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 勾
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 里勾外连 | to act from inside in coordination with attackers outside; attacked from both inside and o… | |
| 拉勾儿 | erhua form of 拉勾[la1 gou1] | |
| 勾心斗角 | to fight and scheme against each other (idiom); (in palace construction) elaborate and ref… | |
| 勾股定理 | Pythagorean theorem | |
| 一笔勾销 | to write off at one stroke | |
| 勾三搭四 | to make hanky-panky; to seduce women | |
| 高勾丽 | variant of 高句麗|高句丽[Gao1 gou1 li2] | |
| 勾人 | sexy; seductive | |
| 拉勾 | variant of 拉鉤|拉钩[la1 gou1] | |
| 勾手 | to collude with; to collaborate; (basketball) hook shot | |
| 勾出 | to delineate; to articulate; to evoke; to draw out; to tick off | |
| 打勾 | to check; to tick; (old) to buy | |
| 勾通 | to collude with; to conspire | |
| 勾起 | to evoke; to induce; to call to mind; to pick up with a hook | |
| 勾号 | check mark (✓) | |
| 勾当 | shady business | |
| 勾八 | (slang) see 雞巴|鸡巴[ji1 ba5] | |
| 勾结 | to collude with; to collaborate with; to gang up with | |
| 勾连 | to be linked together; to be involved with; to collude; interconnection; involvement; coll… | |
| 勾联 | variant of 勾連|勾连[gou1 lian2] |
Sound family
These characters use 勾 as their sound component — compare how they read.