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 decorate for festive occasions / to be wounded in action
to worry / to be on one's mind
to report the loss of something
to worry about
concerned / troubled / having sth on one's mind
to keep saying (sth) over and over
to hang up properly (telephone, picture, clothes etc)
to be in command / (fig.) to dominate over other considerations / to be given overemphasis
to register as an emergency case at a hospital
variant of 掛褡|挂褡[gua4 da1]
to put into gear / to engage the gear / gear change
to hang up (a phone)
18-wheeler / big rig / semi-trailer
to mention some but omit many others (idiom) / to leave out much more than one includes
to get caught (entangled) / to catch (on sth)
see 掛褡|挂褡[gua4 da1]
to pay lip service to / to keep mentioning (without doing anything) / to blather on about sth

Sentences with 掛

掛 currently does not appear in any sentence.