hooked nose; aquiline nose
Describes a nose with a prominent hook or curve, like a hawk's beak. Neutral descriptive term.
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.
Heian-period face-drawing style with slit eyes and hook nose
Standard kanji spelling using 鉤 (hook).
Mixed kana-kanji spelling; common in everyday writing.
Variant kanji 鈎 is less common than 鉤.
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.