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挂号

guà hào

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 掛號

挂号 (guà hào) means "to register (at a hospital)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 挂号 means

1. to register (at a hospital etc)
2. to send by registered mail

The characters in 挂号

• 挂guàto hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead
• 号hào(literary) to call out; to command; (bound form) bugle; trumpet; (bound form) signal…

Example sentences

• 寄挂号吗？
  By registered letter?
• 请用挂号寄这个。
  Qǐng yòng guàhào jì zhège.
  Please send this by registered mail.
• 我想要用挂号寄这封信。
  Wǒ xiǎngyào yòng guàhào jì zhè fēng xìn.
  I want to have this letter registered.

Words starting with 挂号

• 挂号信guà hào xìnregistered letter
• 挂号证guà hào zhèngregister card

Where 挂号 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Health, Medicine & Wellbeing (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read guà hào correctly.
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