Chinese word dictionary

挂失

guàshī · to report the loss of something

Practice word

Word information

Simplified挂失

Traditional掛失

Pinyinguàshī

Part of speech动

HSK 3.07-9

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

失shī

to lose; to make a mistake, to neglect

How to learn 挂失

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.

When the word appears in a sentence, check whether its part of speech and meaning match the definition shown here. Chinese words can change nuance with context.

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Words with the same characters

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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

失败shībài

to be defeated; to lose; to fail (e.g. experiments); failure; defeat; CL:次[ci4]

失去shīqù

to lose

失望shīwàng

disappointed; to lose hope; to despair

丢失diūshī

to lose; to misplace

挂号guàhào

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