懸

See also: 悬
懸 U+61F8, 懸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-61F8
← 懷
[U+61F7] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 懹 →
[U+61F9]

Translingual

Han character

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

Descendants

References
  • KangXi: page 408, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11462
  • Dae Jaweon: page 749, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2368, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+61F8

Chinese

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (縣) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
縣 *ɡʷeːn, *ɡʷeːns
懸 *ɡʷeːn

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

Pronunciation 1
trad. 懸
simp. 悬
Note:
  • hèng - vernacular;
  • hièng - literary.
Note:
  • hiân - literary;
  • soân - vernacular (俗).
Rime
Character 懸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 先 (86)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 胡涓切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦwen/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷen/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwɛn/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuen/
Wang
Li		 /ɣiwen/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣiwen/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xuán
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

Definitions

懸

  1. to hang; to suspend; to hoist
  2. to be hung
  3. to announce
  4. to feel anxious
  5. to imagine
  6. to raise
  7. unsettled; unresolved
  8. (colloquial) dangerous
  9. far apart
  10. A surname​.

Compounds
Derived terms from 懸

Pronunciation 2
trad. 懸
simp. 悬
variant forms 高
峘
Note: vernacular.
Note: vernacular.
Note: vernacular.

Definitions

懸

  1. (Min) tall; high
  2. (Min Nan) of high level; above average
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 高 (“tall; high”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 高
Mandarin Beijing 高
Taiwan 高
Jinan 高
Xi'an 高
Wuhan 高, 長 †
Chengdu 高
Yangzhou 高
Hefei 高
Cantonese Guangzhou 高
Hong Kong 高
Taishan 高
Yangjiang 高
Gan Nanchang 高, 猛 †
Hakka Meixian 高
Changting 高
Wuping 高
Liancheng 高
Ninghua 高
Jin Taiyuan 高
Min Bei Jian'ou 高
Min Dong Fuzhou 懸
Fuqing 懸
Matsu 懸
Min Nan Xiamen 懸, 躼 †
Quanzhou 懸, 躼 †
Zhangzhou 懸, 躼 †
Taipei 懸, 躼 †
Kaohsiung 懸, 躼 †
Tainan 懸, 躼 †
Taichung 懸
Hsinchu 懸
Lukang 懸, 躼 †
Sanxia 懸, 躼 †
Yilan 懸, 躼 †
Kinmen 懸
Magong 懸
Penang 懸
Singapore 懸
Chaozhou 懸
Shantou 懸
Puxian Min Putian 懸
Xianyou 懸
Wu Suzhou 高, 長 †
Wenzhou 高, 長 †
Xiang Changsha 高, 上
Shuangfeng 高, 長 †
Note † - of a person's height

Compounds
Derived terms from 懸

References

Japanese

Kanji
懸

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. suspend

Readings

Korean

Hanja

懸 • (hyeon)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 현 (revised: hyeon, McCune–Reischauer: hyŏn, Yale: hyen)
    • Name (hangeul): 매달 현
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Vietnamese

Han character

懸 (huyền)

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