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挂

guà

hang, suspend; suspense

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Radical
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Traditional form: 掛

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Example sentences

  • 我要挂科了!

    Wǒ yào guà kē le

    I'm going to fail the class!

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  • 我不想挂科。

    Wǒ bù xiǎng guà kē

    I don't want to fail my exams.

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  • 她把画挂反了。

    Tā bǎ huà guà fǎn le

    She hung the picture upside down.

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  • 地图挂在墙上。

    Dì tú guà zài qiáng shàng

    The map is on the wall.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 挂

  • 挂guà 4to 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)
  • 挂号guà hào 4–4 to register (at a hospital etc); to send by registered mail
  • 悬挂xuán guà 2–4 to suspend; to hang; (vehicle) suspension
  • 牵挂qiān guà 1–4 to worry about; to be concerned about
  • 挂念guà niàn 4–4 concerned
  • 挂钩guà gōu 4–1 to couple; to link; to hook together; (fig.) (preceded by 与 + {entity}) to establish contact (with {entity}); (Tw) to collude (with {entity}); (fig.) to link (marketing efforts with production etc); to peg (welfare payments to inflation etc); to tie (remuneration to performance etc); hook (on which to hang sth); latch hook; coupling
  • 挂失guà shī 4–1 to report the loss of something