Welcome to ChineseFrequencyDictionary.com. Enter a Chinese character or compound Chinese word to lookup. If a valid dictionary entry is found, frequency information will be shown below:

Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
guà - 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

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
4 3 896 1,290 729

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Hand

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
4 3 896 1,290 729
牵挂 - 8 12,495 9,212 3,946
挂念 - 8 14,112 23,266 10,981
悬挂 6 9 18,877 9,165 14,790
挂毯 - - 25,666 77,511 56,427
挂钩 - 9 26,350 - -
挂号信 - - 27,595 66,117 51,766
挂彩 - - 28,866 63,851 42,706
挂名 - - 32,283 54,173 54,284
挂心 - - 32,294 59,936 33,505
挂车 - - 35,627 36,097 46,707
挂号 5 9 35,884 21,431 17,230
挂牌 - - 36,733 5,635 16,071
挂锁 - - 37,144 96,265 77,092
记挂 - - 38,573 44,344 25,502
挂历 - - 39,066 28,593 18,540
倒挂 - - 39,864 25,222 34,131
挂失 - 9 41,050 28,574 30,849
挂钟 - - 43,929 48,409 24,153
披挂 - - 45,243 54,996 63,994
外挂 - - 48,182 - -
挂载 - - 56,573 77,485 78,456
树挂 - - 80,783 92,811 53,450
挂面 - - 81,875 50,939 34,198
挂怀 - - 84,264 - -
挂虑 - - 90,617 - 80,594
挂职 - - 90,674 28,675 57,927
挂花 - - 90,717 - 87,314
挂轴 - - 90,879 - 84,353
挂靠 - - 91,101 23,282 38,395
挂羊头卖狗肉 - - 97,662 68,779 49,167