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悬崖

xuán yá

2-character word Traditional 懸崖

What 悬崖 means

1. precipice
2. overhanging cliff

The characters in 悬崖

• 悬xuánto hang or suspend; to worry; public announcement
• 崖yáprecipice; cliff; Taiwan pr. yái

Example sentences

• 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.
• 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 悬崖

• 悬崖峭壁xuán yá qiào bì(idiom) sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces
• 悬崖勒马xuán yá lè mǎlit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom)…
• 悬崖绝壁xuán yá jué bìsee 悬崖峭壁