悬
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to hang or suspend; to worry; public announcement; unresolved; baseless; without foundation
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- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 心 +7
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 懸
- Common rank
- #1,416
- Unicode
- U+60AC
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Words with 悬
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 解民倒悬 | lit. to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius); to save the peop… | |
| 明镜高悬 | perspicacious and impartial in judgment (idiom) | |
| 倒悬之苦 | lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation; dire… | |
| 悬羊头卖狗肉 | see 掛羊頭賣狗肉|挂羊头卖狗肉[gua4 yang2 tou2 mai4 gou3 rou4] | |
| 口若悬河 | mouth like a torrent (idiom); eloquent; glib; voluble; have the gift of the gab | |
| 倒悬之急 | lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation; di… | |
| 中苏解决悬案大纲协定 | the treaty of 1923 normalizing relations between the Soviet Union and the Northern Warlord… | |
| 天地悬隔 | lit. a gulf between heaven and earth (idiom); fig. wide difference of opinion | |
| 天悬地隔 | see 天差地遠|天差地远[tian1 cha1 di4 yuan3] | |
| 倒悬之危 | lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation; di… | |
| 垂悬分词 | dangling participle (grammar) | |
| 悬浮物 | suspended matter | |
| 悬空 | to hang in the air; suspended in midair; (fig.) uncertain | |
| 悬河 | "hanging" river (an embanked one whose riverbed is higher than the surrounding floodplain)… | |
| 悬而未决 | (idiom) pending a decision; hanging in the balance | |
| 悬带 | sling (for immobilizing an injured limb etc) | |
| 头悬梁，锥刺股 | lit. with his head attached to a beam and stabbing his thigh with an awl (idiom); fig. to … | |
| 秦镜高悬 | see 明鏡高懸|明镜高悬[ming2 jing4 gao1 xuan2] | |
| 倒悬 | lit. to hang upside down; fig. in dire straits | |
| 悬索桥 | suspension bridge |