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Trad. 懸
- to hang or suspend
- to worry
- public announcement
- unresolved
- baseless
- without foundation
Trad. 懸河
- "hanging" river (an embanked one whose riverbed is higher than the surrounding floodplain)
- (literary) waterfall
- cataract
- (fig.) torrent of words
Trad. 懸盪
- to hang suspended; to dangle
- (fig.) to be in limbo; to be in a state of uncertainty
Trad. 懸空寺
- Xuankong Temple or Suspended Temple near Yanyuan in Shanxi
Trad. 懸賞令
- an order to post a reward (for the capture of a criminal)
Trad. 眾寡懸殊
- (idiom) a great disparity in numerical strength
Trad. 附贅懸疣
- superfluous or useless appendages
- superfluities
Trad. 秦鏡高懸
- see 明鏡高懸|明镜高悬[ming2 jing4 gao1 xuan2]
Trad. 天地懸隔
- lit. a gulf between heaven and earth (idiom)
- fig. wide difference of opinion
Trad. 明鏡高懸
- perspicacious and impartial in judgment (idiom)
Trad. 天懸地隔
- see 天差地遠|天差地远[tian1 cha1 di4 yuan3]
Trad. 解民倒懸
- lit. to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius); to save the people from dire straits
Trad. 倒懸之危
- lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
- dire straits
Trad. 倒懸之急
- lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
- dire straits
Trad. 倒懸之苦
- lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
- dire straits
Trad. 懸壺濟世
- practice medicine or pharmacy to help the people or public
Trad. 懸崖勒馬
- lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom)
- fig. to act in the nick of time
Trad. 懸崖峭壁
- (idiom) sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces
Trad. 懸崖絕壁
- sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces (idiom)
Trad. 懸樑刺股
- to study assiduously and tirelessly (idiom)
- see also 頭懸梁，錐刺股|头悬梁，锥刺股[tou2 xuan2 liang2 , zhui1 ci4 gu3]
Trad. 懸而未決
- (idiom) pending a decision; hanging in the balance
Trad. 口若懸河
- mouth like a torrent (idiom)
- eloquent
- glib
- voluble
- have the gift of the gab
Trad. 懸掛式滑翔機
- hang-glider
Trad. 懸羊頭賣狗肉
- see 掛羊頭賣狗肉|挂羊头卖狗肉[gua4 yang2 tou2 mai4 gou3 rou4]
Trad. 頭懸梁，錐刺股
- lit. with his head attached to a beam and stabbing his thigh with an awl (idiom)
- fig. to study assiduously and tirelessly
Trad. 中蘇解決懸案大綱協定
- the treaty of 1923 normalizing relations between the Soviet Union and the Northern Warlord government of China