掛

How to write 掛, stroke by stroke

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What 掛 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 卦

Made of 扌 + 卦

Words with 掛

• 掛斷guà duànto hang up (a phone)
• 掛念guà niànto feel anxious about; to have (sth) weighing on one's mind
• 懸掛xuán guàto suspend; to hang; (vehicle) suspension
• 牽掛qiān guàto worry about; to be concerned about
• 掛鉤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
• 掛線guà xiànto hang up the phone
• 倒掛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
• 一絲不掛yī sī bù guànot wearing one thread (idiom); absolutely naked; without a stitch of clothing; in one's birthday suit
• 同一掛tóng yī guà(coll.) to have a lot in common (with sb); to get along well with each other
• 喝掛hē guà(coll.) to get drunk; to get hammered
• 外掛wài guàattached externally (e.g. fuel tank); plug-in; add-on; special software used to cheat in an online game
• 張掛zhāng guàto hang up (a picture, banner, mosquito net etc)

掛 in a sentence

• 他把他的外衣掛在了衣架上。

  tā bǎ tā de wài yī guà zài le yī jià shàng 。

  He hung his jacket on the coat stand.

• 把你的外套掛在鉤子上。

  bǎ nǐ de wài tào guà zài gōu zǐ shàng 。

  Hang your coat on the hook.

• 我把我的帽子掛在掛鉤上。

  wǒ bǎ wǒ de mào zi guà zài guà gōu shàng 。

  I hung my hat on the peg.

• 我把襯衣掛在了衣架上。

  wǒ bǎ chèn yī guà zài le yī jià shàng 。

  I hung the shirt on the coat hanger.

• 我們在前門上掛了一個聖誕花圈。

  wǒ mén zài qián mén shàng guà le yí gè shèng dàn huā quān 。

  We hung a Christmas wreath on the front door.

Characters that sound like 掛

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