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How to write 挂, stroke by stroke

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What 挂 means

to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead; to be worried; to be concerned; (dialect) to make a phone call; to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor); (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam); classifier for sets or clusters of objects

Pictophonetic: semantic 扌 (hand), phonetic 圭

Made of 扌 + 圭

Words with 挂

• 挂断guà duànto hang up (a phone)
• 挂念guà niànto feel anxious about; to have (sth) weighing on one's mind
• 悬挂xuán guàto suspend; to hang; (vehicle) suspension
• 牵挂qiān guàto worry about; to be concerned about
• 挂钩guà gōuto couple; to link; to hook together; (fig.) (preceded by 与 + {entity}) to establish contact (with {entity}); (Tw) to collude (with {entity}); (fig.) to link (marketing efforts with production etc); to peg (welfare payments to inflation etc); to tie (remuneration to performance etc); hook (on which to hang sth); latch hook; coupling
• 挂线guà xiànto hang up the phone
• 倒挂dào guàlit. 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
• 一丝不挂yī sī bù guànot wearing one thread (idiom); absolutely naked; without a stitch of clothing; in one's birthday suit
• 同一挂tóng yī guà(coll.) to have a lot in common (with sb); to get along well with each other
• 喝挂hē guà(coll.) to get drunk; to get hammered
• 外挂wài guàattached externally (e.g. fuel tank); plug-in; add-on; special software used to cheat in an online game
• 张挂zhāng guàto hang up (a picture, banner, mosquito net etc)

挂 in a sentence

• 等一下，我马上就回来。不要挂断电话！

  děng yí xià ， wǒ mǎ shàng jiù huí lái 。 bú yào guà duàn diàn huà ！

  Hold on a second, I'll be right back. Don't hang up!

• 他的画被悬挂在墙上。

  tā de huà bèi xuán guà zài qiáng shàng 。

  His pictures were hung on the wall.

• 许多战士会战中挂彩了。

  xǔ duō zhàn shì huì zhàn zhōng guà cǎi le 。

  Many soldiers were wounded in the battle.

• 把那幅画挂到墙上。

  bǎ nà fú huà guà dào qiáng shàng 。

  Hang that picture on the wall.

• 苹果树上挂着美丽的花朵。

  píng guǒ shù shàng guà zhe měi lì de huā duǒ 。

  The apple tree has a beautiful blossom.

Characters that sound like 挂

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