I don't want to fail my exams.
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挂
Traditional: 掛
guà
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guà · gwaa3 (Jyutping)
- 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
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Character breakdown
挂
- Meaning
- hang, suspend; suspense
- Radical
- 扌
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- ⿰扌圭
- Cangjie
- QGG
- Four-corner
- 5401.4
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Example sentences
The picture is hanging on the wall.
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