Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- xuán
English
- hang, suspend, hoist
- to hang or suspend
- be hung
- to worry
- public announcement
- unresolved
- baseless
- without foundation
Variants
Words containing 懸
- 懸掛jyun4 gwaa3
to suspend
- 懸崖jyun4 ngaai4
precipice
- 懸殊jyun4 syu4
vastly different; poles apart
- 懸浮jyun4 fau4
to float (in the air etc)
- 懸念jyun4 nim6
suspense in a movie, play etc
- 懸賞jyun4 soeng2
to offer a reward
- 懸疑jyun4 ji4
suspense
- 懸案jyun4 on3
unresolved question
- 懸紅jyun4 hung4
a bounty
- 懸空jyun4 hung1
to hang in the air
- 倒懸dou3 jyun4
lit. to hang upside down
- 懸河jyun4 ho4
"hanging" river (an embanked one whose riverbed is higher than the surrounding floodplain)
- 懸隔jyun4 gaak3
hanging apart, separated; far apart
- 懸岩jyun4 ngaam4
cliff
- 懸賞令jyun4 soeng2 ling6
an order to post a reward (for the capture of a criminal)
- 懸崖勒馬jyun4 ngaai4 lak6 maa5
lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom)
- 懸浮窗jyun4 fau4 coeng1
(computing) floating window
- 懸帶jyun4 daai3
sling (for immobilizing an injured limb etc)
- 懸停jyun4 ting4
to hover (helicopter, computer mouse etc)
- 明鏡高懸ming4 geng3 gou1 jyun4
perspicacious and impartial in judgment (idiom)
- 懸劍jyun4 gim3
- 懸盪jyun4 dong6
to hang suspended; to dangle
- 懸壺jyun4 wu4
(literary) to practice medicine
- 懸臂jyun4 bei3
cantilever