HOOK    鉤子鉤

ROUND SHARP TOOL USED to CATCH FISH PULL OR SUSPEND THINGS. []
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current general word for a hook is gōu 鉤, which can refer to: a. the fishhook, mentioned for the Warring States in ZHUANGZI. Fishhooks can be made of bone or metal; bone ones are known since the Neolithic, bronze ones since the early Shang period. b. belt-hook, which came to use in the late Western Zhou and Chunqiu period, and became common in Warring States times. It was made of bronze, iron, gold, silver, jade, or ivory; valuable pieces were richly inlaid with precious metals or turquoise. c. the hook to hang up something; the most remarkable among this group are hooks for suspending bronze bells, which are known already from the early Chunqiu period. d. the word can also refer to the implements and weapons with a hook or to the crooked artefacts; the term is therefore used for the ladders with a hook to climb city walls (mentioned already in SHIJING), crooked swords mentioned in HANSHU, and sickles.
Modern Chinese Criteria
鉤子 掛鉤 鉤頭　 鉤 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • TOOL　ARTEFACT PRODUCED FOR USE USING a DEFINED METHOD. (anc: 5/0, child: 53)
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)
  • THING　CONCRETE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 10)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 12.75

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no.12

  • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 100B

    • Words (2 items)

    鉤  gōu OC: koo MC: ku 15 Attributions

    Current general word for a hook is gōu 鉤, which can refer to: a. the fishhook, mentioned for the Warring States in ZHUANGZI. Fishhooks can be made of bone or metal; bone ones are known since the Neolithic, bronze ones since the early Shang period. b. belt-hook, which came to use in the late Western Zhou and Chunqiu period, and became common in Warring States times. It was made of bronze, iron, gold, silver, jade, or ivory; valuable pieces were richly inlaid with precious metals or turquoise. c. the hook to hang up something; the most remarkable among this group are hooks for suspending bronze bells, which are known already from the early Chunqiu period. d. the word can also refer to the implements and weapons with a hook or to the crooked artefacts; the term is therefore used for the ladders with a hook to climb city walls (mentioned already in SHIJING, crooked swords mentioned in HANSHU, and sickles.

    • 楚文物圖典 Chu wenwu tudian ( CHU 2000) p. {pp. 220}

    • () p. 251 - 252 {63-1 - 63-7}

    • [100 page synonym dictionary which I have in Oslo and shall identify.CH] ( XIANG 1997) p. 193

    • 中國衣冠服飾大詞典 Zhongguo yiguan fushi da cidian ( ZGYI 1996) p. 473

      Syntactic words
    • ncarpenter's hook; belt-hook; belt-buckle[also hook for fishing][CA]
    • nhook used in angling, fishing hookCH
    • nadVinstrumentwith a hook; with its sharp points and hooks
    • vtoNto hook; to threaten with a hook
    句  jù OC: kos MC: ki̯o
    句  gōu OC: koo MC: ku 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nhook