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悬

xuán

HSK 6 Character Traditional 懸

What 悬 means

1. to hang or suspend
2. to worry
3. public announcement
4. unresolved
5. baseless
6. without foundation

Example sentences

• 他的画被悬挂在墙上。
  Tā de huà bèi xuánguà zài qiáng shàng.
  His pictures were hung on the wall.
• 我差点从悬崖上掉下去。
  Wǒ chàdiǎn cóng xuányá shàng diàoxià qù.
  I nearly fell off the cliff.
• 他们一直爬到悬崖顶上。
  Tāmen yīzhí pádào xuányá dǐng shàng.
  They climbed to the top of a cliff.
• 我不喜欢让事情悬而未决。
  Wǒ bù xǐhuan ràng shìqing xuán'érwèijué.
  I don't like to leave things up in the air.
• 只迈一步，你就会落下悬崖。
  A single step, and you will fall over the cliff.
• 车子若是掉落悬崖他们早就没命了。
  Chēzi ruòshì diàoluò xuányá tāmen zǎojiù méimìng le.
  They would have been killed if the car had gone over the cliff.

Words starting with 悬

• 悬挂xuán guàto suspend; to hang; (vehicle) suspension
• 悬念xuán niànsuspense in a movie, play etc; concern for sb's welfare
• 悬崖峭壁xuán yá qiào bì(idiom) sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces
• 悬崖xuán yáprecipice; overhanging cliff
• 悬赏xuán shǎngto offer a reward; bounty
• 悬殊xuán shūvastly different; poles apart
• 悬空xuán kōngto hang in the air; suspended in midair; (fig.) uncertain
• 悬浮xuán fúto float (in the air etc); suspension
• 悬崖勒马xuán yá lè mǎlit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom)…
• 悬停xuán tíngto hover (helicopter, computer mouse etc)
• 悬壶xuán hú(literary) to practice medicine; to work as a pharmacist
• 悬岩xuán yáncliff
• 悬带xuán dàisling (for immobilizing an injured limb etc)
• 悬案xuán ànunresolved question; unresolved case
• 悬河xuán hé"hanging" river…
• 悬疑xuán yísuspense
• 悬荡xuán dàngto hang suspended; to dangle; (fig.) to be in limbo; to be in a state of uncertainty
• 悬垂xuán chuíto hang down; to dangle; to be suspended
• 悬浮物xuán fú wùsuspended matter
• 悬浮窗xuán fú chuāng(computing) floating window
• 悬空寺Xuán kōng SìXuankong Temple or Suspended Temple near Yanyuan in Shanxi
• 悬索桥xuán suǒ qiáosuspension bridge
• 悬赏令xuán shǎng lìngan order to post a reward (for the capture of a criminal)
• 悬壶济世xuán hú jì shìpractice medicine or pharmacy to help the people or public

Words containing 悬

• 口若悬河kǒu ruò xuán hémouth like a torrent (idiom); eloquent; glib
• 磁悬浮cí xuán fúmagnetic levitation (train); maglev
• 倒悬dào xuánlit. to hang upside down; fig. in dire straits
• 倒悬之危dào xuán zhī wēilit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation…
• 倒悬之急dào xuán zhī jílit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation…
• 倒悬之苦dào xuán zhī kǔlit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation…
• 天地悬隔tiān dì xuán gélit. a gulf between heaven and earth (idiom); fig. wide difference of opinion
• 明镜高悬míng jìng gāo xuánperspicacious and impartial in judgment (idiom)
• 解民倒悬jiě mín dào xuánlit. to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius)…
• 垂悬分词chuí xuán fēn cídangling participle (grammar)
• 垂悬结构chuí xuán jié gòudangling element (grammar)
• 众寡悬殊zhòng guǎ xuán shū(idiom) a great disparity in numerical strength
• 附赘悬疣fù zhuì xuán yóusuperfluous or useless appendages; superfluities
• 中苏解决悬案大纲协定Zhōng Sū jiě jué xuán àn dà gāng xié dìngthe treaty of 1923 normalizing relations between the Soviet Union and the Northern…
• 头悬梁，锥刺股tóu xuán liáng , zhuī cì gǔlit. with his head attached to a beam and stabbing his thigh with an awl (idiom)…
• 天悬地隔tiān xuán dì gésee 天差地远
• 秦镜高悬Qín jìng gāo xuánsee 明镜高悬

Characters that look like 悬

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 惠huì(bound form) act of kindness (from a superior); (honorific prefix) kind (as in 惠顾
• 晨chénmorning; dawn; daybreak
• 恳kěnearnest
• 惫bèiexhausted
• 斋zhāito fast or abstain from meat, wine etc; vegetarian diet; study room
• 恿yǒngused in 怂恿

Sounds the same

Read xuán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 旋to revolve; a loop; a circle
• 玄black; mysterious
• 璇(jade)
• 漩whirlpool; eddy; also pr. xuàn
• 琁beautiful jade; star
• 玹jadelike precious stone; jade-colored
• 嫙beautiful; fine
• 暶(literary) bright; (literary) beautiful; good-looking
• 㻽variant of 璇; also pr. suì
• 伭variant of 玄; variant of 悬