懸

懸 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+16, 20 strokes, cangjie input 月火心 (BFP), four-corner 6233₉, composition ⿱縣心)

• 悬

• 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷeːn) : phonetic 縣 (OC *ɡʷeːn, *ɡʷeːns) + semantic 心 (“heart”) – to be concerned (in one’s heart).

懸

1. to hang; to suspend
2. to raise
3. to feel anxious
4. (literary, or in compounds) to announce

   懸賞／悬赏  ―  xuánshǎng  ―  to offer a reward

5. (literary, or in compounds) to imagine; to suppose

   懸想／悬想  ―  xuánxiǎng  ―  to imagine

6. to be unsettled; to be unresolved
7. (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.)

8. far apart
9. a surname

• (to announce):

• (to feel anxious):

• (to imagine):

懸

1. (Min) tall; high
2. (Southern Min) of high level; above average
3. (Hokkien) height
4. (Puxian Min) to hang down

• “Entry #12998”, 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., 2024.
• 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, pages 201, 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), page 270.

(Jōyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𢝝)

1. suspend

• Go-on: げん (gen)
• Kan-on: けん (ken, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: け (ke, Jōyō ^†)
• Kun: かける (kakeru, 懸ける, Jōyō)、かかる (kakaru, 懸かる, Jōyō)

懸 (eumhun 매달 현 (maedal hyeon))

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懸: Hán Nôm readings: huyền

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