挂
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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
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 手 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 挂
- Common rank
- #914
- Unicode
- U+6302
Sound it out + + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
hang · Heisig RSH #605
fingers + bricks
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 挂
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 事不关己，高高挂起 | to feel unconcerned and let matters rest (idiom) | |
| 一丝不挂 | not wearing one thread (idiom); absolutely naked; without a stitch of clothing; in one's b… | |
| 同一挂 | (coll.) to have a lot in common (with sb); to get along well with each other | |
| 开外挂 | see 開掛|开挂[kai1 gua4] | |
| 活动挂图 | flipchart | |
| 牛角挂书 | lit. to hang one's books on cow horns (idiom); fig. to be diligent in one's studies | |
| 挂在嘴上 | to pay lip service to; to keep mentioning (without doing anything); to blather on about st… | |
| 外挂程式 | plug-in (software) (Tw) | |
| 挂号信 | registered letter | |
| 挂在嘴边 | to keep saying (sth) over and over | |
| 大红灯笼高高挂 | Raise the Red Lantern (1991), movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋[Zhang1 Yi4 mou2] | |
| 挂水 | to put sb on an intravenous drip | |
| 挂心 | to worry; to be on one's mind | |
| 挂马 | (computing) to infect with a Trojan horse | |
| 挂机 | to hang up (a phone); to leave a computer etc running (idling, downloading, or playing a g… | |
| 挂花 | to be wounded; (of plants) to bloom | |
| 挂面 | pasta; noodles | |
| 开挂 | to cheat in an online game (abbr. for 開外掛|开外挂[kai1 wai4 gua4]); (coll.) unbelievably good | |
| 挂车 | trailer | |
| 挂号证 | register card |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 圭 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圭 sound part | jade tablet | |
| 鞋 | shoes, footwear in general | |
| 街 | street, road, thoroughfare | |
| 佳 | good, auspicious; beautiful; delightful | |
| 桂 | cassia, cinnamon | |
| 硅 | silicon | |
| 哇 | to vomit; an infant's cry | |
| 闺 | women's quarters; lady's apartment | |
| 蛙 | frog | |
| 奎 | a man's stride; a constellation | |
| 卦 | divination, fortune-telling | |
| 洼 | pit, hollow, depression; swamp | |
| 畦 | sections in a vegetable farm | |
| 眭 | a piercing gaze; the evil eye | |
| 筀 | bamboo (archaic) | |
| 絓 | to hinder, to obstruct | |
| 鲑 | salmon; Spheroides vermicularis | |
| 恚 | anger, rage | |
| 诖 | error, mistake; to deceive, to mislead |