挂 (guà): meaning and stroke order
挂 (guà) means to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc), to hang up (the phone), (of a line) to be dead.
挂
- Simplified
- 挂
- Traditional
- 掛
- Pinyin
- guà
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Stroke order of 挂
挂
- guà to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone)
- 9 strokes
- Traditional form: 掛
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Meaning of 挂
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guà
Traditional 掛
- 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
Radical and structure
- 挂
- Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 9 strokes · 扌 on the left, 圭 on the right
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Words with 挂
- 挂钟 guà zhōng wall clock
挂 in our stories
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他打开挂钟后面的小门，一把铜钥匙果然挂在里面。
tā dǎkāi guàzhōng hòumiàn de xiǎomén yì bǎ tóng yàoshi guǒrán guà zài lǐmiàn
He opened the little door at the back of the clock, and sure enough, a brass key was hanging inside.
From the story Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6
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乐广听说后，回到那天喝酒的地方，抬头一看，墙上挂着一张弓，弓上画着蛇的花纹，影子正好映在酒杯里。
Yuè Guǎng tīngshuō hòu huídào nà tiān hē jiǔ de dìfang tái tóu yí kàn qiáng shàng guà zhe yì zhāng gōng gōng shàng huà zhe shé de huāwén yǐngzi zhènghǎo yìng zài jiǔbēi lǐ
When Yue Guang heard, he went back to where they had been drinking and looked up: on the wall hung a bow painted with a snake pattern, and its reflection fell right into the wine cup.
From the story The bow's reflection in the cup HSK 7–9 · Level 7
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他身材高大，两只耳朵上挂着黄蛇，手里也握着黄蛇，一步能跨过一座山丘。
tā shēncái gāodà liǎng zhī ěrduo shàng guà zhe huángshé shǒu lǐ yě wò zhe huángshé yí bù néng kuà guò yí zuò shānqiū
He was enormous: yellow snakes hung from his ears and he held yellow snakes in his hands, and a single stride carried him over a hill.
From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Stories using 挂
- Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6
- The bow's reflection in the cup HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9
- Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9
- The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).