挂 (guà) – to hang or suspend (from a hook etc)

Definitions

1. 1to hang or suspend (from a hook etc)
2. 2to hang up (the phone)
3. 3(of a line) to be dead
4. 4to be worried or concerned
5. 5to make a phone call (dialect)
6. 6to register or record
7. 7classifier for sets or clusters of objects
8. 8(slang) to kill
9. 9to die
10. 10to be finished
11. 11to fail (an exam)

Simplified & traditional

Example sentences

See 挂 used in real sentences with pinyin and English translations.

• 我不想挂科。

  wǒ bù xiǎng guà kē 。

  I don't want to fail my exams.

• 我要挂科了！

  wǒ yào guà kē le ！

  I'm going to fail the class!

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