Entry
挂guà钩gōu

  1. to couple; to link; to hook together; (fig.) (preceded by 與|与[yu3] + {entity}) to establish contact (with {entity}); (Tw) to collude (with {entity}); (fig.) to link (marketing efforts with production etc); to peg (welfare payments to inflation etc); to tie (remuneration to performance etc); hook (on which to hang sth); latch hook; coupling

    trad. 掛鉤

Also written 掛鉤【guà gōu】

Characters in this word

2
挂
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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
掛
Strokes
9
Frequency
1287 of 2500
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