| 懸 | [ xuán ] to hang or suspend, to worry, public announcement, unresolved, baseless, without foundation |
| 懸停 | [ xuán tíng ] to hover (helicopter, computer mouse etc) |
| 懸垂 | [ xuán chuí ] to hang down, to dangle, to be suspended |
| 懸壺 | [ xuán hú ] (literary) to practice medicine, to work as a pharmacist |
| 懸壺濟世 | [ xuán hú jì shì ] practice medicine or pharmacy to help the people or public |
| 懸岩 | [ xuán yán ] cliff |
| 懸崖 | [ xuán yá ] precipice, overhanging cliff |
| 懸崖勒馬 | [ xuán yá lè mǎ ] lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom), fig. to act in the nick of time |
| 懸崖峭壁 | [ xuán yá bì ] sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces (idiom) |
| 懸崖絕壁 | [ xuán yá jué bì ] sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces (idiom) |
| 懸帶 | [ xuán daì ] sling (for immobilizing an injured limb etc) |
| 懸念 | [ xuán niàn ] suspense in a movie, play etc, concern for sb's welfare |
| 懸掛 | [ xuán guà ] to suspend, to hang, (vehicle) suspension |
| 懸掛式滑翔 | [ xuán guà shì huá xiáng ] hang-gliding |
| 懸掛式滑翔機 | [ xuán guà shì huá xiáng jī ] hang-glider |
| 懸揣 | [ xuán ] to speculate, to conjecture |
| 懸案 | [ xuán àn ] unresolved question, unresolved case |
| 懸樑刺股 | [ xuán liáng cì gǔ ] 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] |
| 懸殊 | [ xuán shū ] widely different, large disparity |
| 懸河 | [ xuán hé ] "hanging" river (an embanked one whose riverbed is higher than the surrounding floodplain), (literary) waterfall, cataract, (fig.) torrent of words |
| 懸浮 | [ xuán fú ] to float (in the air etc), suspension |
| 懸浮微粒 | [ xuán fú weī lì ] particulates, particulate matter |
| 懸浮物 | [ xuán fú wù ] suspended matter |
| 懸疑 | [ xuán yí ] suspense |
| 懸盪 | [ xuán dàng ] to hang, suspended |
| 懸空 | [ xuán kōng ] to hang in the air, suspended in midair, (fig.) uncertain |
| 懸空寺 | [ xuán kōng sì ] Xuankong Temple or Suspended Temple near Yanyuan in Shanxi |
| 懸索橋 | [ xuán suǒ ] suspension bridge |
| 懸羊頭賣狗肉 | [ xuán yáng toú maì goǔ roù ] see 掛羊頭賣狗肉|挂羊头卖狗肉[gua4 yang2 tou2 mai4 gou3 rou4] |
| 懸而未決 | [ xuán ér weì jué ] pending a decision, hanging in the balance |
| 懸臂 | [ xuán bì ] cantilever |
| 懸賞 | [ xuán shǎng ] to offer a reward, bounty |
| 懸賞令 | [ xuán shǎng lìng ] an order to post a reward (for the capture of a criminal) |
| 懸雍垂 | [ xuán yōng chuí ] uvula (biology) |
| ⇒ 中蘇解決懸案大綱協定 | [ zhōng sū jiě jué xuán àn dà gāng xié dìng ] the treaty of 1923 normalizing relations between the Soviet Union and the Northern Warlord government of China |
| ⇒ 倒懸 | [ daò xuán ] lit. to hang upside down, fig. in dire straits |
| ⇒ 倒懸之危 | [ daò xuán zhī weī ] lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation, dire straits |
| ⇒ 倒懸之急 | [ daò xuán zhī jí ] lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation, dire straits |
| ⇒ 倒懸之苦 | [ daò xuán zhī kǔ ] lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation, dire straits |
| ⇒ 口若懸河 | [ koǔ ruò xuán hé ] mouth like a torrent (idiom), eloquent, glib, voluble, have the gift of the gab |
| ⇒ 垂懸分詞 | [ chuí xuán fēn cí ] dangling participle (grammar) |
| ⇒ 垂懸結構 | [ chuí xuán jié goù ] dangling element (grammar) |
| ⇒ 天地懸隔 | [ tiān dì xuán gé ] lit. a gulf between heaven and earth, wide difference of opinion (idiom) |
| ⇒ 天懸地隔 | [ tiān xuán dì gé ] see 天差地遠|天差地远[tian1 cha1 di4 yuan3] |
| ⇒ 明鏡高懸 | [ míng jìng gaō xuán ] perspicacious and impartial in judgment (idiom) |
| ⇒ 眾寡懸殊 | [ zhòng guǎ xuán shū ] the multitude against the few, a wide disparity (idiom from Mencius); heavily outnumbered, unequally matched, overwhelmed by weight of numbers |
| ⇒ 磁懸浮 | [ cí xuán fú ] magnetic levitation (train), maglev |
| ⇒ 秦鏡高懸 | [ qín jìng gaō xuán ] see 明鏡高懸|明镜高悬[ming2 jing4 gao1 xuan2] |
| ⇒ 解民倒懸 | [ jiě mín daò xuán ] lit. to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius); to save the people from dire straits |
| ⇒ 附贅懸疣 | [ fù zhuì xuán yoú ] superfluous or useless appendages, superfluities |
| ⇒ 頭懸梁，錐刺股 | [ toú xuán liáng zhuī cì gǔ ] lit. with his head attached to a beam and stabbing his thigh with an awl (idiom), fig. to study assiduously and tirelessly |