Chinese word dictionary

挂住

guà zhù · to get caught (entangled); to catch (on sth)

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Word information

Simplified挂住

Traditional掛住

Pinyinguà zhù

Part of speechDictionary

HSK 3.0Not listed

HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

挂guà

to suspend, to put up, to hang; suspense

住zhù

to reside, to live at, to dwell, to lodge; to stop

How to learn 挂住

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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Words with the same characters

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住zhù

to live; to reside; to stay; to stop; to cease; (result complement indicating firmness or a stable achieved state)

住院zhùyuàn

to stay in hospital; to be hospitalized

挂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

入住rùzhù

to check in (at a hotel etc); to move into (a house)

挂号guàhào

to register (at a hospital etc); to send by registered mail

居住jūzhù

to reside; to dwell; to live in a place; resident in