Entry
  1. lit. to hang up a plate; to open up for business; listed (on stock market)

    trad. 掛牌

Also written 掛牌【guà pái】

Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc), to hang up (the phone), (of a line) to be dead, to be worried; to be concerned, (dialect) to make a phone call, to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor), (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam), classifier for sets or clusters of objects

Pinyin
guà
Traditional
Strokes
9
Frequency
1287 of 2500
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

signboard; plaque; plate; tablet (CL:塊|块[kuai4]), brand; trademark, mahjong tile; domino; playing card (CL:張|张[zhang1]), (bound form) fixed pattern for lyrics or set melody in classical poetry or music (used in 詞牌|词牌[ci2 pai2] and 曲牌[qu3 pai2])

Pinyin
pái
Strokes
12
Frequency
3297 of 2500