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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *挂* | 挂* | *挂
to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc) / to hang up (the phone) / (of a line) to be dead / to be worried; to be concerned / (dialect) to make a phone call / to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor) / (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) / classifier for sets or clusters of objects
HSK 3
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
to fish (with line and hook); to angle / (fig.) to entrap / (Tw) to repeatedly nod one's head while dozing
HSK 7-9
hook
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *钩* | 钩* | *钩
to hook / to sew / to crochet / hook / check mark or tick / window catch
HSK 7-9
to go off the stage / to fall from position of prestige / to step down (from office etc) / to disentangle oneself / to get off the hook
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *勾* | 勾* | *勾
to attract / to arouse / to tick / to strike out / to delineate / to collude / variant of 鉤|钩, hook
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *钓* | 钓* | *钓
to fish with a hook and line; to angle
to blow out / to blow off / (computer games) to zap / (phone) to ring off the hook / to be jammed / to max out (credit card etc)
suspended hook / hanging hook / hanger
crochet hook / crochet needle
to detain / to hold back by force / to buckle / to hook
by fair means or foul / by hook or by crook / unscrupulously
to collude with / to collaborate / (basketball) hook shot
clothes hook
iron hook
to evoke / to induce / to call to mind / to pick up with a hook
iron hook at the end a long pole
a hook / to make contact with sb
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *亅* | 亅* | *亅
"vertical stroke with hook" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 6), aka 豎鉤|竖钩
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *剳* | 剳* | *剳
hook / sickle
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *钜* | 钜* | *钜
(literary) hard iron / (literary) hook; barb / used in personal names and place names / variant of
vertical stroke with a hook at the end (in Chinese characters)
(slang) to hook up for a one night stand / booty call
to hook onto / to hitch onto / to catch onto
window hook / window latch
hook
ancient weapon with a tip like a grappling hook, thrown at enemy combatants in order to capture them
to connect (a cable etc) / to hook up (a device) / to resume (a conversation) / to set (a bone)
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
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)
hook (punch in boxing)
steelyard hook
serif / hook at the end of brushstroke
switch hook (button or cradle of a telephone, whose function is to disconnect the call)
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
left hook and right hook (boxing) / the old one-two
horizontal 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)
in order to minimally fulfill one's responsibilities / in order to get off the hook
Hook or Hooke (name) / Robert Hooke (1635-1703), brilliant English experimental scientist and inventor
clothes hook
accessory hook


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