掛

Meaning

掛 centers on attaching or connecting one thing to another: hanging or suspending something, depending on something, or arriving at a place. The tax and pour senses are extensions of applying or attaching an action to something.

• 掛かるかかる
  N5

  to take (a resource, e.g. time or money)

• 掛けるかける
  N5

  to hang up (e.g. a coat, a picture on the wall); to let hang; to suspend (from); to hoist (e.g. sail); to raise (e.g. flag)

• 仕掛けしかけ
  N1

  device; contrivance; mechanism; gadget

• 見せ掛けみせかけ
  N1

  seeming; pose; show; pretense; sham; mock

• 出掛けでがけ

  (on the) point of going out; (at the) moment one is about to leave

• 掛けかけ
  N1

  credit

• 仕掛けるしかける
  N1

  to start; to begin; to commence

• 掛け持ちかけもち

  holding two or more positions concurrently

• 掛け声かけごえ

  shout (of encouragement, etc.); yell (used to time or encourage activity, e.g. "Heave ho!")

• 掛け替えかけがえ

  replacement; substitution; rebuilding; changing

• 掛け合いかけあい

  negotiations; bargaining

• 引っ掛けひっかけ

  hook; gab

• 引っ掛かりひっかかり

  hold; catch

• 大掛かりおおがかり

  large-scale

• 目掛けるめがける

  to aim at

• 腰掛けこしかけ
  N2

  seat; bench

• 取り掛かるとりかかる
  N1

  to begin (doing); to start; to set about; to get down to

• 掛け金かけきん

  installment; instalment; premium; bill

• 掛け算かけざん
  N3

  multiplication

• 引っ掛けるひっかける
  N2

  to hang (something) on (something); to throw on (clothes)

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