guà

hang

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

卦 sound component

  Sound component

guà

  

fortune telling

Definitions

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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 掛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to die

挂牌

lit. to hang up a plate

牵挂

to worry about

悬挂

to suspend

挂念

concerned