掛賬

Chinese

		to hang; to put up; to suspend	account
trad. (掛賬)		掛	賬
simp. (挂账)		挂	账
alternative forms		掛帳／挂帐

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guàzhàng

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄚˋ ㄓㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwaa³ zoeng³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guàzhàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄚˋ ㄓㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guàjhàng
    • Wade–Giles: kua⁴-chang⁴
    • Yale: gwà-jàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guahjanq
    • Palladius: гуачжан (guačžan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ä⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwaa³ zoeng³
    • Yale: gwa jeung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwaa³ dzoeng³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gua³ zêng³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷaː³³ t͡sœːŋ³³/

Verb

掛賬

1. to buy or sell on credit
2. to bill

   客房掛賬／客房挂账  ―  kèfáng guàzhàng  ―  Hotel room bills

Synonyms

• 掛房賬／挂房账
• 賒賬／赊账 (shēzhàng)
• 賒數／赊数 (shēshù)
• (Hokkien) 掛數／挂数, 記數／记数, 放數／放数

Pronunciation 2

• Southern Pinghua (Nanning, Jyutping++): gwaa³ su³

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• Southern Pinghua
  • (Nanning Pinghua, Tingzi)
    • Jyutping++: gwaa³ su³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷa⁵⁵ su⁵⁵/

Verb

掛賬

1. (Southern Pinghua) to record a transaction; to keep the books

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 記賬 (“to keep accounts; to record transactions; to do bookkeeping”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		記賬
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	記賬
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	記賬
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	記賬
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	記賬, 入賬, 做賬
	Guiyang	入賬
Cantonese	Hong Kong	記賬
	Dongguan	記賬
Gan	Nanchang	記賬
Hakka	Meixian	記數
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	記數
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	記數
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	記數
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	記數
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	記數
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	記數
Huizhou	Jixi	做賬
Jin	Taiyuan	記賬
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	記數, 記賬
Southern Min	Xiamen	記數
	Quanzhou	記數
	Zhangzhou	記數, 在數
	Tainan	記數, 落數
	Manila (Hokkien)	記數
	Chaozhou	落數
	Haikou	記數
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	記數, 掛數, 掛賬
Wu	Shanghai	做賬
	Ningbo	做賬