挂 guà▶ menggantung

Stroke order

挂 is written in 9 strokes.

• 挂

Senses

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

Example sentences

• 墙上挂着一张照片。Qiáng shang guà zhe yì zhāng zhàopiàn.A photo hangs on the wall.
• 请把衣服挂起来。Qǐng bǎ yīfu guà qǐlái.Please hang up the clothes.

Related words

• 挂号Mendaftar; Daftar
• 悬挂penangguhan

挂 is pronounced guà and means “menggantung”. HSK 4 places it in the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, the standardised measure of Chinese proficiency. There is a real difference between having seen 挂 and being able to use it, and cramming a list flatters the first while doing little for the second. LexiTrail shows you the word again at the point your recall of it is about to lapse.