懸 (Kangxi radical 61,心 +16, 20 strokes,cangjie input 月火心 (BFP ),four-corner 62339 ,composition ⿱縣 心 )
Kangxi Dictionary:page 408 , character 24 Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11462 Dae Jaweon: page 749, character 22 Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2368, character 5 Unihan data for U+61F8 Old Chinese 縣 *ɡʷeːn, *ɡʷeːns 懸 *ɡʷeːn
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声 ,OC *ɡʷeːn ): phonetic 縣 ( OC *ɡʷeːn, *ɡʷeːns ) + semantic 心 ( “ heart ” ) – to be concerned (in one’s heart).
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hèng - vernacular; hièng - literary. Note :
hiân - literary; soân - vernacular (俗). Baxter –Sagart system 1.1 (2014 )Character 懸 Reading # 1/1 Modern Beijing (Pinyin) xuán Middle Chinese ‹ hwen › Old Chinese /*N-kʷˁe[n]/ (error in B&S 2014, should be *Cə.[ɡ]ʷˁe[n] to account for Mǐn) English suspend Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)Character 懸 Reading # 1/1 No. 13577 Phonetic component 縣 Rime group 元 Rime subdivision 2 Corresponding MC rime 玄 Old Chinese /*ɡʷeːn/ Notes 俗 同 縣 通 用
懸
tohang ; tosuspend toraise tofeel anxious ( literary , or in compounds) toannounce 懸 賞/ 悬 赏 ― xuán shǎng ― to offer a reward( literary , or in compounds) toimagine ; tosuppose 懸 想/ 悬 想 ― xuán xiǎng ― to imagineto beunsettled ; to beunresolved ( colloquial ) dangerous 甲 :「考試 考 得 怎麼樣 呢 ?」乙 :「懸 。」[MSC ,trad. ] 甲 :「考试 考 得 怎么样 呢 ?」乙 :「悬 。」[MSC ,simp. ] Jiǎ: “Kǎoshì kǎo de zěnmeyàng ne?” Yǐ: “Xuán .” [Pinyin] A: How did you do on your test? B:Dangerous .(meaning: I might have failed but I might have passed.) far apart asurname 心念 ( Hokkien ) 念 ( niàn ) ( literary, or in compounds ) 惦念 ( diànniàn ) 惦記 / 惦记 ( diànjì ) 懸念 / 悬念 ( xuánniàn ) ( formal ) 懸想 / 悬想 ( xuánxiǎng ) 掛念 / 挂念 ( guàniàn ) 掛意 / 挂意 ( guàyì ) 掛記 / 挂记 ( Nanchang Gan, Yudu Hakka ) 數念 / 数念 ( siàu-liām ) ( Hokkien ) 牽掛 / 牵挂 ( qiānguà ) 眷懷 / 眷怀 ( juànhuái ) ( literary ) 眷注 ( juànzhù ) ( literary ) 眷顧 / 眷顾 ( juàngù ) ( formal ) 記掛 / 记挂 ( jìguà ) ( dialectal ) 顧念 / 顾念 ( gùniàn ) 估計 / 估计 ( gūjì ) 估量 假定 ( jiǎdìng ) 假想 ( jiǎxiǎng ) 假設 / 假设 ( jiǎshè ) 商量 ( shāngliàng ) ( Classical Chinese ) 嫌 ( xián ) ( literary, or in compounds ) 忖度 ( cǔnduó ) ( literary ) 思裁 ( sīcái ) ( literary ) 想象 ( xiǎngxiàng ) 懸想 / 悬想 ( xuánxiǎng ) 懷疑 / 怀疑 ( huáiyí ) 打估 ( Southern Pinghua ) 推想 ( tuīxiǎng ) 推測 / 推测 ( tuīcè ) 掠算 ( Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien ) 揣度 ( formal ) 擬 / 拟 ( nǐ ) 母量 ( mu3 liong ) ( Gan ) 派胚 ( Hokkien ) 測 / 测 ( cè ) ( literary, or in compounds ) 測估 / 测估 ( cègū ) 測度 / 测度 ( cèduó ) 測算 / 测算 ( cèsuàn ) 猜 ( cāi ) 猜度 ( cāiduó ) 猜想 ( cāixiǎng ) 猜摸 ( cāimo ) 猜料 ( cāiliào ) 猜測 / 猜测 ( cāicè ) 猜詳 / 猜详 ( cāixiáng ) 算 ( suàn ) 算計 / 算计 ( suànjì ) 約摸 / 约摸 ( yuēmo ) 臭疑 ( Hokkien ) 臭青疑 ( Hokkien ) 虛擬 / 虚拟 ( xūnǐ ) 要約 / 要约 ( iau3 ieh4 ) ( Jin ) 設 / 设 ( shè ) 設想 / 设想 ( shèxiǎng ) 跋胚 ( Zhangzhou Hokkien ) 辦胚 / 办胚 ( Zhangzhou Hokkien ) 阿合 ( Quanzhou Hokkien, Xiamen Hokkien ) 青疑 ( Hokkien ) 預計 / 预计 ( yùjì ) Note : vernacular.
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ge2/giⁿ2 - “high, tall”; he2/hiⁿ2 - “hang down”. Southern Min (Hokkien :Xiamen ,Tong'an ,Taipei ,Kinmen ,Singapore ) (Hokkien :Quanzhou ,Jinjiang ,Philippines ,Singapore ) (Hokkien :Zhangzhou ,Kaohsiung ,Tainan ,Lukang ,Sanxia ,Yilan ,Magong ,Hsinchu ,Taichung ,Singapore ,Penang ) Note : vernacular.
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vernacular; guain5 - Chaoyang. 懸
( Min ) tall ;high ( Southern Min ) ofhigh level ;above average ( Hokkien ) height ( Puxian Min ) tohang down Dialectal synonyms of
高 (“tall; high”)
[map] Variety Location Words Formal(Written Standard Chinese ) 高 Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 高 Taiwan 高 Malaysia 高 Singapore 高 Jilu Mandarin Jinan 高 Central Plains Mandarin Xi'an 高 Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 高 Wuhan 高 ,長 † Jianghuai Mandarin Yangzhou 高 Hefei 高 Cantonese Guangzhou 高 Hong Kong 高 Taishan 高 Yangjiang 高 Singapore(Guangfu) 高 Gan Nanchang 高 ,猛 † Hakka Meixian 高 Changting 高 Wuping 高 Liancheng 高 Ninghua 高 Jin Taiyuan 高 Northern Min Jian'ou 高 Eastern Min Fuzhou 懸 Fuzhou(Changle) 懸 Fuqing 懸 Pingtan 懸 Yongtai 懸 Gutian 懸 Fu'an 懸 Ningde 懸 Shouning 懸 Zhouning 懸 Matsu 懸 Southern Min Xiamen 懸 ,躼 † Quanzhou 懸 ,躼 † Zhangzhou 懸 ,躼 † Zhao'an 懸 Taipei 懸 ,躼 † New Taipei(Sanxia) 懸 ,躼 † Kaohsiung 懸 ,躼 † Yilan 懸 ,躼 † Changhua(Lukang) 懸 ,躼 † Taichung 懸 Tainan 懸 ,躼 † Hsinchu 懸 Kinmen 懸 Penghu(Magong) 懸 Penang(Hokkien) 懸 Singapore(Hokkien) 懸 ,躼 † Manila(Hokkien) 懸 ,躼 † Chaozhou 懸 Shantou 懸 Singapore(Teochew) 懸 Wenchang 懸 Qionghai 懸 Singapore(Hainanese) 懸 Puxian Min Putian 懸 Xianyou 懸 Zhongshan Min Zhongshan(Longdu, Shaxi) 懸 Wu Shanghai 高 ,長 † Suzhou 高 ,長 † Hangzhou(Yuhang) 長 ,高 Wenzhou 高 ,長 † Xiang Changsha 高 ,上 Shuangfeng 高 ,長 † Note † - of a person's height
“懸 ”, in教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi ] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien),Ministry of Education, R.O.C. ,2025 .莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [ Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC] , editor (2021 ), “悬 ”, in莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect ] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min),Xiamen University Press ,→ISBN , pages201, 260, 262 .莆田市荔城区档案馆 [ Putian City Licheng District Archives] , editor (2022 ), “悬 ”, in莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary ] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page270 .懸
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suspend 懸 (eumhun 매달 현 ( maedal hyeon ) )
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