勾搭 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

gōuda

fool around

gōu hook

勾 originated as a variant of 句. 口 represents the sound and 丩 represents the meaning and the sound.

jiū join

口 Sound component

kǒu, kou mouth

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 口 than it was in ancient scripts.

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kuw	[k]ˤ(r)o	curved
	kuwH	[k]ˤ(r)ok-s	loan for 彀 draw a bow to the full
Zhengzhang		koː
		koːs

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 荅 represents the sound.

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

荅 Sound component

dā, dá, tà small bean

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	tuːb
	tʰoːb