HSK Guide

部首 6a barbed hook; a vertical stroke that turns up at the foot

jué (second tone, rising)

a barbed hook; a vertical stroke that turns up at the foot

部首 61 画0 汉字

Where the shape comes from

The Shuowen reads it as a barb — a shaft with the point turned back so that what it catches cannot slip off. Nobody says the word; it survives as the index heading for characters whose spine is a hooked vertical, and it takes in two of the commonest graphs in the language: 了 and 事. 予 and 争 sit here too.

汉字 filed under

No published character on HSK Guide is filed under this radical yet. 汉字库.