guà

to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead

verb HSK 3.0 · Band 4 trad. 掛

Watch it being written

Every character draws itself, stroke by stroke. Then grab the brush: trace it yourself and hear the word when you finish.

Build with these blocks

Chinese words snap together like bricks. Every word below shares a character with this one, so you are already halfway to knowing it.

  • 挂号guàhàoto register (at a hospital etc)B5
  • 挂钩guàgōuto coupleB7
  • 挂念guàniànto feel anxious aboutB7
  • 挂失guàshīto report the loss of somethingB7
  • 牵挂qiānguàto worry aboutB7
  • 悬挂xuánguàto suspendB7

See it in sentences

把衣服挂起来吧。

Hang up the clothes.

他生气地挂了电话。

He hung up the phone angrily.