







钩玄提要 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to delve into the profound and extract the essence”. To explore the abstruse and summarize the main points. Literally, “Hook the profound and extract the essentials”.

Printable tracing sheets with a QR learning companion
Open the tool →
Chinese and English fill-in vocabulary worksheets
Open the tool →
Choose character parts and animate their colors, together or in stroke order
Open the tool →
Create PNGs with pinyin, highlight character parts or remove strokes
Open the tool →钩玄提要 (gōu xuán tí yào) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to delve into the profound and extract the essence”.
钩玄提要 is pronounced gōu xuán tí yào in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 钩玄提要 means “Hook the profound and extract the essentials”. It is used to mean “to delve into the profound and extract the essence”.
钩:探索;玄:精微之处;提:举出;要:纲要。探取精微,摘出纲要。