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鉤 kanji
hook, barb, gaff, brackets
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コウク
Kun readings
かぎはりばり
Variant forms
鈎Words with 鉤
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —鉤虫hookworm
- —鉤状hooklike; hook-shaped; unciform
- —符鉤tail (of a note)
- —単鉤法in calligraphy, a style of holding the brush between the thumb and index finger
- —双鉤法in calligraphy, a style of holding the brush between the thumb and the index and middle fingers
- —鉤頭虫thorny-headed worm (any parasitic worm of phylum Acanthocephala)
- —鉤虫症hookworm disease; ancylostomiasis; ankylostomiasis; uncinariasis
- —有鉤骨hamate bone; unciform bone; hooked bone
- —有鉤条虫pork tapeworm (Taenia solium)
- —鉤頭虫類acanthocephalans; thorny-headed worms
- —鉤頭動物acanthocephales; thorny-headed worms; spiny-headed worms
- —ズビニ鉤虫old world hookworm (Ancylostoma duodenale)
- —鉤頭動物門Acanthocephala (phylum of thorny-headed worms)
- —有鉤条虫症taeniasis; cysticercosis
- —アメリカ鉤虫New World hookworm (Necator americanus)
- —鉤欄railing; handrail; balustrade