挂 — Chinese character
挂
guà
to suspend, to put up, to hang; suspense
- Pinyin
- guà
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 扌 圭
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 圭
- Traditional
- 掛
- Japanese
- 挂 as a kanji
Common words with 挂
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 挂牌 (掛牌) | guà pái | lit. to hang up a plate; to open up for business |
| 悬挂 (懸掛) | xuán guà | to suspend; to hang |
| 挂钩 (掛鉤) | guà gōu | to couple; to link; to hook together; (fig.) (preceded by 与 (yǔ) + {entity}) to establish contact (with {entity}); (Tw) to collude (with {entity}) |
| 外挂 (外掛) | wài guà | attached externally (e.g. fuel tank); plug-in; add-on; special software used to cheat in an online game |
| 牵挂 (牽掛) | qiān guà | to worry about; to be concerned about |
| 挂号 (掛號) | guà hào | to register (at a hospital etc); to send by registered mail |
| 挂念 (掛念) | guà niàn | to feel anxious about; to have (sth) weighing on one's mind |
| 一丝不挂 (一絲不掛) | yī sī bù guà | not wearing one thread (idiom); absolutely naked; without a stitch of clothing |
| 挂断 (掛斷) | guà duàn | to hang up (a phone) |
| 挂帅 (掛帥) | guà shuài | to take command; to be in command; (fig.) to take precedence; to be paramount; to be given top priority |
| 挂载 (掛載) | guà zài | (computing) to mount |
| 倒挂 (倒掛) | dào guà | lit. to hang upside down; fig. topsy-turvy and inequitable, e.g. manufacturing and trading costs exceed the sale price (of some goods) |
English words written with 挂
挂 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Art of War 3 · Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.