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"to hook onto" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
钩住 鉤住 gōu zhù to hook onto / to hitch onto / to catch onto
Chinese Pinyin Translation
上 shàng (bound form) up / upper / above / previous / first (of multiple parts) / to climb / to get onto / to go up / to attend (class or university) / (directional complement) up / (noun suffix) on / above syn
钓鱼 釣魚 diào yú to fish (with line and hook) / to angle / (fig.) to entrap / (Tw) to repeatedly nod one's head while dozing syn
出场 出場 chū chǎng (of a performer) to come onto the stage to perform / (of an athlete) to enter the arena to compete / (fig.) to enter the scene (e.g. a new product) / (of an examinee etc) to leave the venue syn
不择手段 不擇手段 bù zé shǒu duàn by fair means or foul / by hook or by crook / unscrupulously syn
配乐 配樂 pèi yuè to create music for a movie or stage production / to dub music onto a soundtrack / incidental music / soundtrack music
捉住 zhuō zhù to catch / to grapple with / to hold onto syn
上街 shàng jiē to go onto the streets / to go shopping
下台 下臺 xià tái 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 syn
钩子 鉤子 gōu zi hook syn
朝向 cháo xiàng toward / to face / to open onto / to turn towards / orientation / exposure / Qibla (Islam) syn
登上 dēng shàng to climb over / to ascend onto / to mount
装货 裝貨 zhuāng huò to load sth onto a ship etc
挂钩 掛鉤 guà gōu to couple / to link / to hook together / (fig.) (preceded by 與|与[yu3] + {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 syn
装船 裝船 zhuāng chuán to load cargo onto a ship
飞檐走壁 飛檐走壁 fēi yán zǒu bì to leap onto roofs and vault over walls (usually associated with martial arts)
吊钩 吊鉤 diào gōu suspended hook / hanging hook / hanger
移花接木 yí huā jiē mù lit. to graft flowers onto a tree / to surreptitiously substitute one thing for another (idiom) syn
充值 chōng zhí to recharge (money onto a card)
勾起 gōu qǐ to evoke / to induce / to call to mind / to pick up with a hook
接上 jiē shàng to connect (a cable etc) / to hook up (a device) / to resume (a conversation) / to set (a bone)
扣住 kòu zhù to detain / to hold back by force / to buckle / to hook
胶着 膠著 jiāo zhuó to stick onto / stalemate / gridlock / to agglutinate syn
嫁祸 嫁禍 jià huò to impute / to shift the blame onto someone else
打爆 dǎ bào 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)
铁钩 鐵鈎 tiě gōu iron hook
钩针 鉤針 gōu zhēn crochet hook / crochet needle
接穗 jiē suì scion (branch or bud that is grafted onto rootstock) syn
挂 掛 guà 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 syn
落 luò to fall or drop / (of the sun) to set / (of a tide) to go out / to lower / to decline or sink / to lag or fall behind / to fall onto / to rest with / to get or receive / to write down / whereabouts / settlement syn
扶 fú to support with the hand / to help sb up / to support oneself by holding onto something / to help syn
钓 釣 diào to fish with a hook and line / to angle syn
勾 gōu to attract / to arouse / to tick / to strike out / to delineate / to collude / variant of 鉤|钩[gou1], hook syn
钩 鉤 gōu to hook / to sew / to crochet / hook / check mark or tick / window catch syn
钜 鉅 jù (literary) hard iron / (literary) hook / barb / used in personal names and place names / variant of 巨[ju4]
墨斗 mò dǒu carpenter's straight line marker (an inked cord stretched tight then lowered onto timber)
墨线 墨線 mò xiàn inked line / carpenter's straight line marker (an inked cord stretched tight then lowered onto timber)
颜射 顏射 yán shè to ejaculate onto sb's face
胡克 hú kè Hook or Hooke (name) / Robert Hooke (1635-1703), brilliant English experimental scientist and inventor
搭钩 搭鉤 dā gōu a hook / to make contact with sb
衣钩 衣鉤 yī gōu clothes hook
互相推诿 互相推諉 hù xiāng tuī wěi mutually shirking responsibilities (idiom) / each blaming the other / passing the buck to and fro / each trying to unload responsibilities onto the other
赶鸭子上架 趕鴨子上架 gǎn yā zi shàng jià lit. to drive a duck onto a perch (idiom) / fig. to push sb to do sth way beyond their ability
聊以塞责 聊以塞責 liáo yǐ sè zé in order to minimally fulfill one's responsibilities / in order to get off the hook
太公钓鱼，愿者上钩 太公釣魚，願者上鉤 tài gōng diào yú , yuàn zhě shàng gōu 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
左右勾拳 zuǒ yòu gōu quán left hook and right hook (boxing) / the old one-two
姜太公钓鱼，愿者上钩 薑太公釣魚，願者上鉤 jiāng tài gōng diào yú , yuàn zhě shàng gōu 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
褟 tā inner shirt / to sew onto clothing / see also 禢[Ta4]
一一映射 yī yī yìng shè bijective map (i.e. map between sets in math. that is one-to-one and onto) / one-to-one correspondence
以邻为壑 以鄰為壑 yǐ lín wéi hè to use one's neighbor as a drain / to shift one's problems onto others (idiom) syn
扒车 扒車 bā chē to pull oneself up onto a moving vehicle
搭肩 dā jiān to help lift up onto one's shoulders / to stand on sb's shoulder
砧木 zhēn mù rootstock (stem onto which a branch is grafted)
转写 轉寫 zhuǎn xiě to transliterate / to transcribe / to transfer words onto a surface by direct contact (as with a decal)
进栈 進棧 jìn zhàn (computing) to push (a value) onto a stack
黏贴 黏貼 nián tiē to glue to / to paste onto / to stick on
加值 jiā zhí to recharge (money onto a card) (Tw)
礌石 lèi shí (old) stones that can be rolled down onto an attacking enemy
蜡扦 蠟扦 là qiān candlestick with a spike, onto which candles are impaled
胎体 胎體 tāi tǐ (in ceramics, lacquerware etc) the base (made of clay, metal, bamboo etc) onto which a glaze, lacquer or other decorative elements are applied
卸责 卸責 xiè zé to avoid responsibility / to shift the responsibility onto others / (Tw) to relieve sb of their responsibilities (e.g. upon retirement)
贼喊捉贼 賊喊捉賊 zéi hǎn zhuō zéi lit. a thief crying "Stop the thief!" (idiom) / fig. to accuse sb of a theft and try to sneak away oneself / to cover up one's misdeeds by shifting the blame onto others
溅落 濺落 jiàn luò (of a spacecraft) to splash down / (of a liquid) to splash onto a surface
炮烙 páo luò form of torture said to have been used by King Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王[Shang1 Zhou4 Wang2] in which the victim was forced onto a bronze pillar heated by a fire
礌石 léi shí (old) rocks that can be dropped from a height onto an attacking enemy
移花接木 yí huā - jiē mù lit. to graft flowers onto a tree (idiom) / fig. to surreptitiously substitute one thing for another syn
跳轨 跳軌 tiào guǐ to jump onto the tracks in a suicide attempt
靴子落地 xuē zi luò dì lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor)
高接梨 gāo jiē lí (Tw) high-grafted pear (a variety of Asian pear grown in Taiwan, produced by grafting scions from high-altitude or high-latitude regions onto local rootstocks, adapting them to Taiwan's subtropical climate)
横钩 橫鉤 héng gōu horizontal stroke with a hook at the end (in Chinese characters)
竖钩 豎鉤 shù gōu vertical stroke with a hook at the end (in Chinese characters)
亅 jué "vertical stroke with hook" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 6), aka 豎鉤|竖钩[shu4gou1]
勾手 gōu shǒu to collude with / to collaborate / (basketball) hook shot
勾拳 gōu quán hook (punch in boxing)
字脚 字腳 zì jiǎo serif / hook at the end of brushstroke
挠钩 撓鉤 náo gōu iron hook at the end a long pole
窗钩 窗鉤 chuāng gōu window hook / window latch
窃国者侯，窃钩者诛 竊國者侯，竊鉤者誅 qiè guó zhě hóu , qiè gōu zhě zhū 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[Zhuang1 zi3])
窃钩者诛，窃国者侯 竊鉤者誅，竊國者侯 qiè gōu zhě zhū , qiè guó zhě hóu 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[Zhuang1 zi3])
衣裳钩儿 衣裳鈎兒 yī shang gōu r clothes hook
配件挂勾 配件掛勾 pèi jiàn guà gōu accessory hook
鈎 gōu variant of 鉤|钩, hook / barb
钩扣 鉤扣 gōu kòu hook
抛射抓钩 pāo shè zhuā gōu launched grapnel hook
剳 dá hook / sickle
叉簧 chā huáng switch hook (button or cradle of a telephone, whose function is to disconnect the call)
约炮 約炮 yuē pào (slang) to hook up for a one night stand / booty call
秤钩 秤鉤 chèng gōu steelyard hook
飞挝 飛撾 fēi wō ancient weapon with a tip like a grappling hook, thrown at enemy combatants in order to capture them
飞挝 飛撾 fēi zhuā ancient weapon with a tip like a grappling hook, thrown at enemy combatants in order to capture them
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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