挂
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
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #914 U+6302
How 挂 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
扌 (semantic, “hand”) + 圭 (phonetic, guī)
How to remember it
hang · Heisig RSH #605
fingers + bricks
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 圭
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 圭 (guī) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圭 sound component | guī | jade tablet |
| 鞋 | xié | shoes, footwear in general |
| 街 | jiē | street, road, thoroughfare |
| 佳 | jiā | good, auspicious; beautiful; delightful |
| 桂 | guì | cassia, cinnamon |
| 硅 | guī | silicon |
| 哇 | wā | to vomit; an infant's cry |
| 闺 | guī | women's quarters; lady's apartment |
| 蛙 | wā | frog |
| 奎 | kuí | a man's stride; a constellation |
| 卦 | guà | divination, fortune-telling |
| 洼 | wā | pit, hollow, depression; swamp |
| 畦 | qí | sections in a vegetable farm |
| 眭 | suī | a piercing gaze; the evil eye |
| 筀 | guì | bamboo (archaic) |
| 絓 | guà | to hinder, to obstruct |
| 鲑 | guī | salmon; Spheroides vermicularis |
| 恚 | huì | anger, rage |
| 诖 | guà | error, mistake; to deceive, to mislead |
Words containing 挂
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 事不关己，高高挂起 | shì bù guān jǐ , gāo gāo guà qǐ | to feel unconcerned and let matters rest (idiom) |
| 一丝不挂 | yī sī bù guà | not wearing one thread (idiom); absolutely naked; without a stitch of clothing; in one's b… |
| 同一挂 | tóng yī guà | (coll.) to have a lot in common (with sb); to get along well with each other |
| 开外挂 | kāi wài guà | see 開掛|开挂[kai1 gua4] |
| 活动挂图 | huó dòng guà tú | flipchart |
| 牛角挂书 | niú jiǎo guà shū | lit. to hang one's books on cow horns (idiom); fig. to be diligent in one's studies |
| 挂在嘴上 | guà zai zuǐ shang | to pay lip service to; to keep mentioning (without doing anything); to blather on about st… |
| 外挂程式 | wài guà chéng shì | plug-in (software) (Tw) |
| 挂号信 | guà hào xìn | registered letter |
| 挂在嘴边 | guà zài zuǐ biān | to keep saying (sth) over and over |
| 大红灯笼高高挂 | Dà hóng Dēng lóng Gāo gāo Guà | Raise the Red Lantern (1991), movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋[Zhang1 Yi4 mou2] |
| 挂水 | guà shuǐ | to put sb on an intravenous drip |
| 挂心 | guà xīn | to worry; to be on one's mind |
| 挂马 | guà mǎ | (computing) to infect with a Trojan horse |
| 挂机 | guà jī | to hang up (a phone); to leave a computer etc running (idling, downloading, or playing a g… |
| 挂花 | guà huā | to be wounded; (of plants) to bloom |
| 挂面 | guà miàn | pasta; noodles |
| 开挂 | kāi guà | to cheat in an online game (abbr. for 開外掛|开外挂[kai1 wai4 gua4]); (coll.) unbelievably good |
| 挂车 | guà chē | trailer |
| 挂号证 | guà hào zhèng | register card |