U+94A9 "钩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+94A9 "钩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) traditionally meaning "hook," "catch," or "barb," and is used in both Classical and Modern Standard Chinese. It is composed of the metal radical 钅 (jīn), indicating its association with metal objects, and the phonetic component 勾 (gōu), which also contributes the pronunciation. In writing, it appears in various compound words and names, such as 挂钩 (guàgōu, "to hook onto") and 鱼钩 (yúgōu, "fishhook"), and it is present in the Japanese kanji set (kagi) and Korean hanja (gu) with similar meanings. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the CJK Unified Ideographs block with a hex value of 94A9, representing its standardized digital form for cross-platform text processing.