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悬挂

xuán guà

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 懸掛

悬挂 (xuán guà) means "to suspend; to hang; (vehicle) suspension". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 悬挂 means

1. to suspend
2. to hang
3. (vehicle) suspension

The characters in 悬挂

• 悬xuánto hang or suspend; to worry; public announcement
• 挂guàto hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead

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.
• 人们普遍认为悬挂式滑翔运动时危险的。
  Rénmen pǔbiàn rènwéi xuánguàshìhuáxiáng yùndòng shí wēixiǎn de.
  There is a tendency for people to think that hang gliding is dangerous.
• 人们普遍认为悬挂式滑翔运动是危险的。
  There is a tendency for people to think that hang gliding is dangerous.
• 美国自然历史博物馆的「光之生物」展览展出了发绿色光的水母、额头上提着灯笼的琵琶鱼，以及在洞穴顶棚上悬挂粘液状细丝，用来诱捕猎物的萤火虫。
  The American Museum of Natural History’s “Creatures of Light” exhibit features jellyfish that glow green, anglerfish whose lantern-like bulbs dangle from their foreheads and luminous glowworms that hang mucus-like strands from cave ceilings to attract and ensnare their prey.

Words starting with 悬挂

• 悬挂式滑翔xuán guà shì huá xiánghang-gliding
• 悬挂式滑翔机xuán guà shì huá xiáng jīhang-glider

Where 悬挂 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xuǎn–xù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xuán guà correctly.
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