Entry
  1. to hang up (a picture etc); to hoist up (a flag); (computing) to suspend (a process); (of a system) to hang; pending (operation)

    trad. 掛起

Also written 掛起【guà qǐ】

Characters in this word

2
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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
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to rise, to raise, to get up, to set out, to start, to appear, to launch, to initiate (action), to draft, to establish, to get (from a depot or counter), verb suffix, to start, starting from (a time, place, price etc), classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance, classifier for groups: batch, group

Pinyin
Strokes
10
Frequency
687 of 2500