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懸

懸

See also: 悬

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
alt. forms 県
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-kʷˤe[n]/ (error in B&S 2014, should be *Cə.[ɡ]ʷˤe[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

Pronunciation 2

trad. 懸
simp. 悬
alt. forms 高
峘
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-kʷˤe[n]/ (error in B&S 2014, should be *Cə.[ɡ]ʷˤe[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. (Min) tall; high
  2. (Min Nan) of high level; above average
Synonyms
  • (tall; high): 高 (gāo)
  • (of high level; above average): 高 (gāo)

Compounds

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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