掛 (guà)
to hang; to register (at a hospital); to hang up (phone)
How 掛 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Traditional
- 掛
- Simplified
- 挂
Components
- 扌 hand
- 圭 N/A
- 卜 divination
Common words using 掛
- 牽掛 qiānguà
- to worry about; to be concerned about
- 懸掛 xuánguà
- to suspend; to hang; suspension (cable car)
- 掛住 guàzhù
- to get caught (entangled); to catch (on sth)
- 掛念 guàniàn
- concerned
- 掛斷 guàduàn
- to hang up (a phone)
- 掛曆 guàlì
- wall calendar
- 掛號 guàhào
- to register (a letter etc)
- 掛鉤 guàgōu
- hook (on which to hang sth); to couple; to link together
- 一絲不掛 yīsībùguà
- not wearing one thread (idiom); absolutely naked; without a stitch of clothing; in one's birthday suit
- 倒掛 dàoguà
- lit. to hang upside down; fig. topsy-turvy and inequitable, e.g. manufacturing and trading costs exceed the sale price (of some goods); to borrow more than one can ever repay
- 吊掛 diàoguà
- to hang (e.g. a painting); dangling; hanging (from the ceiling)
- 垂掛 chuíguà
- to hang down; suspended
掛 in a sentence
請把外套掛在門後的鉤子上。
Qǐng bǎ wàitào guà zài ménhòu de gōuzi shàng.
“Please hang your coat on the hook behind the door.”
How common is 掛?
掛 is the 1,230th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 92.2% of all running text.
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