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)

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) cleaned all her jade tablets (圭) by putting them in the ashram's washing mashine (a4). Now she is putting them on the clothes hanger (挂) using a toy claw (扌).

掛 character breakdown

divinatory diagram / one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1] / one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]
"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a toy claw.

Characters with 掛 as component

掛 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 掛

to suspend / to hang / (vehicle) suspension
lit. to hang upside down / fig. topsy-turvy and inequitable, e.g. manufacturing and trading costs exceed the sale price (of some goods) / to borrow more than one can ever repay
to put on a suit of armor / to put on dress / to wear
attached externally (e.g. fuel tank) / plug-in / add-on / special software used to cheat in an online game
Piguaquan "Chop-Hanging Fist" (Chinese Martial Art)
to suspend / to hang
(coll.) to have a lot in common (with sb) / to get along well with each other
(coll.) to get drunk / to get hammered
to hang down / suspended
Raise the Red Lantern (1991), movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋[Zhang1 Yi4 mou2]
to hang up (a picture, banner, mosquito net etc)
to pull / to tow
not wearing one thread (idiom); absolutely naked / without a stitch of clothing / in one's birthday suit
not worth mentioning (idiom)
preoccupied with school grades / overemphasis on test scores

Sentences with 掛

掛 currently does not appear in any sentence.