surname Gou

= + : The elephant (勹) has Guy Fawkes (g) draw (勾) a cartoon (勾) of him in front of the outhouse (ou1). He told Guy to make his trunk prettier, so instead of a trunk Guy draws a big fake nose (厶).
to attract / to arouse / to tick / to strike out / to delineate / to collude / variant of 鉤|钩[gou1], hook

= + : The elephant (勹) has Guy Fawkes (g) draw (勾) a cartoon (勾) of him in front of the outhouse (ou1). He told Guy to make his trunk prettier, so instead of a trunk Guy draws a big fake nose (厶).
see 勾當|勾当[gou4 dang4]

勾 character breakdown

archaic variant of 包[bao1]

= 丿 + : 勹 looks like an elephant: 丿 looks like the edge of the ear and ㇆ looks like the head and trunk.

Beelzebub (b) rides an elephant in front of the aorta (ao1), turning the soil with a plow (㇆). Lots of bananas (丿) are revealed in the turned earth.
old variant of 某[mou3]
old variant of 私[si1]

Mnemonic symbol: a fake nose. Socrates (s) is wearing his fake nose (厶) in outer space, in front of the space station (Ø1).

Characters with 勾 as component

variant of 構|构[gou4] / (Tw) (coll.) variant of 夠|够[gou4] / to reach by stretching

= + : Guy Fawkes (g) wants to measure the crystal structure (构) of the Christmas tree (木) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), so he first draws a comic (勾) to find which would be the optimal crystallization superstructure.
to construct / to form / to make up / to compose / literary composition / paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)

= + : Guy Fawkes (g) wants to measure the crystal structure (构) of the Christmas tree (木) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), so he first draws a comic (勾) to find which would be the optimal crystallization superstructure.
to buy / to purchase

= + : The crab (贝) is buying (购) Guy Fawkes' (g) cartoons (勾) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4).
ditch / gutter / groove / gully / ravine / CL:道[dao4]

= + : In front of the outhouse (ou1) Guy Fawkes (g) drew (勾) a photo-realistic comic (勾) of an open gully (沟) on the floor. The people are afraid to step onto it because it looks so real. They only start to believe Guy Fawkes that it's not as he spills a bottle of water (氵) over his chalk painting.
variant of 鉤|钩[gou1]

= + : Guy Fawkes (g) wants to break into the outhouse. In front of the outhouse (ou1) he draws (勾) a window catch (钩) onto the glass with a golden harpoon (钅) so he can open the window.
to hook / to sew / to crochet / hook / check mark or tick / window catch

= + : Guy Fawkes (g) wants to break into the outhouse. In front of the outhouse (ou1) he draws (勾) a window catch (钩) onto the glass with a golden harpoon (钅) so he can open the window.

Words with 勾

to fight and scheme against each other (idiom) / (in palace construction) elaborate and refined
to blend various types of wine (or spirits, or fruit juices etc)
to delineate / to articulate / to evoke / to draw out / to tick off
to sketch / to delineate
to collude with / to collaborate / (basketball) hook shot
hook (punch in boxing)
brothel / theater / carved balustrade
to sketch; to delineate
to make hanky-panky / to seduce women
sexy / seductive

Sentences with 勾

勾 currently does not appear in any sentence.