guà
hang
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 圭 represents the sound. Simplified form of 掛.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
guà
hang, suspend; suspense; to hang or suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead; to be worried or concerned; to make a phone call (dialect); to register or record; classifier for sets or clusters of objects; (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam)
Most common words with 挂
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to die | ||
lit. to hang up a plate | ||
to worry about | ||
to suspend | ||
concerned |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ʷˤre-s | kweaH | guà | suspend |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 36.5049% of movies
1107th most common character in movies
1232nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+6302 |
Shuowen | “挂，畫也。从手，圭聲。” |
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