noun
hooked nose; aquiline nose
Describes a nose with a prominent hook or curve, like a hawk's beak. Neutral descriptive term.
彼は鉤鼻が特徴的な顔立ちをしている。
He has distinctive features with a hooked nose.
あの肖像画の人物は鉤鼻で描かれている。
The person in that portrait is depicted with an aquiline nose.
Mixed kana-kanji spelling; common in everyday writing.
Variant kanji 鈎 is less common than 鉤.
鷲鼻 (eagle nose) is a near synonym, but 鉤鼻 emphasizes the hook shape while 鷲鼻 suggests a strong, prominent curve like an eagle's beak.
Compound of 鉤 (kagi, 'hook') and 鼻 (hana, 'nose'), with rendaku voicing hana → bana. The reading かぎはな is a less common variant without rendaku.