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ㄒㄩㄢˊ [xUan2.Homophone
A Chinese Talking Syllabary of the Cantonese Dialect
V(1)  To hang, to suspend in midair, to hoist up, hang up: 在空中 suspend in midair;
牌 hang up a shop sign;
燈(結綵) hang up lantern;
旗 hoist up flag;
[xUan2kong0]↓.
(2)  To occupy the mind, be on the mind: [xUan2nian4]↓;
腸掛肚 cause extreme worry and distress (腸肚 the viscera considered as the seat of emotions), see 腸 and 肚 42A.50, 42A.11).
Adj(1)  Overhanging, unsupported, dangerous: 崖 overhanging cliff;
崖勒馬 draw up short at overhanging cliff-with-draw sharply from imminent disaster;
谷 valley with steep sides.
(2)  (Pop.) steep: 得很 very steep.
(3)  Longstanding, unresolved: [xUan2an4]↓;
[xUan2qUe1]↓.
(4)  Different: 殊,絕,[xUan2shu1], [xUan2jUe2], [xUan2yi4]↓.
AdvBased purely on conjecture, imaginary: 想,斷,[xUan2xiang3], [xUan2duan4], [xUan2ni3]↓.
Words1.案 [xUan2an4], n., a longstanding, unresolved case at court; unsettled question. 
2.欠 [xUan2qian4], v.i., to owe in account unpaid. 
3.罄 [xUan2qing4], n., a suspended music stone (see 磬 11.40); symbolic of bareness: 室如罄 house is quite bare-living in poverty. 
4.揣 [xUan2chuai3], v.i., to surmise, conjecture. 
5.鶉 [xUan2chun2], phr., 衣若鶉 (AC) bedraggled dress like a beggar's (like a “quail hung upside down”). 
6.泉 [xUan2qUan2], n., a falling cataract. 
7.缺 [xUan2qUe1], n., unfilled vacancy. 
8.膽 [xUan2dan3], n., a long, dropping nose (“like suspended gall”). 
9.斷 [xUan2duan4], v.i., to judge, surmise without sufficient basis. 
10.法 [xUan2fa3], phr., (AC) statutes or regulations, pasted over gates, which served as public notices. 
11.峰 [xUan2feng1], n., overhanging cliff, perpendicular peak. 
12.隔 [xUan2ge2], v.i., to be separated at a distance. 
13.掛 [xUan2gua4], v.i., to remember always, be concerned (over s.t.). 
14.果 [xUan2guo3], n., (bot.) a plant, Cremocarp, with split. kernels. 
15.河 [xUan2he2], phr., 口若河 a torrent of words-symbolic of eloquence. 
16.衡 [xUan2heng2], phr., (AC) (1)  to show (laws, etc.) as a public standard; (2)  不能與齊衡 would not be considered equal in power to 齊. 
17.乎 [xUan2hu0], v.i., depend on. 
18.弧 [xUan2hu2]1, phr., (AC) to give birth to a son (“hang a bow” on the door). 
19.壺 [xUan2hu2]2, v.i., to practise medicine (hang a gourd or bottle as shop sign). 
20.記 [xUan2ji4], v.t., to have constantly in mind. 
21.旌 [xUan2jing1], phr., 心如旌 (LL) my heart flutters like a pennant in the wind. 
22.肘 [xUan2zhou3], adv., “with raised elbow” (not resting on table)-for writing characters over a foot big. 
23.車 [xUan2jU1], phr., put carriage in storage-resign from government. 
24.絕 [xUan2jUe2], adj., completely different, wide apart. 
25.軍 [xUan2jUn1], phr., (LL) isolated column of soldiers. 
26.曠 [xUan2kuang4], adj., (Budd.) abstruse, difficult to follow. 
27.空 [xUan2kong0](1)  adv., out of the blue, without basis: 空虛構 invent a story (by imagination); (2)  v.i., to dangle: 兩腳空著 leave one's feet dangling without support. 
28.梁 [xUan2liang2], v.i., “suspend from a beam”-hang oneself. 
29.門 [xUan2men2], n., (AC) a portcullis, suspended gate which could be dropped. 
30.念 [xUan2nian4], v.i. & t., to think of (person in absence). 
31.擬 [xUan2ni3], v.i. & t., to conjecture (a plan), to imagine, surmise. 
32.瀑 [xUan2pu4], n., a cataract, waterfalls. 
33.賞 [xUan2shang3], v.i., to announce award (for wanted criminal, etc.). 
34.想 [xUan2xiang3], v.i., to imagine. 
35.象 [xUan2xiang4], n., (AC) astronomical phenomena. 
36.心 [xUan2xin1], v.i., be worried, concerned. 
37.首 [xUan2shou3], v.i., to display chopped-off head (of criminal, rebel) usu. over city gate. 
38.殊 [xUan2shu1], adj., different (in situation, circumstances, etc.). 
39.虛 [xUan2xU1], adj., abstruse, incredible (talk); unfounded. 
40.榻 [xUan2ta4], phr., (allu.) to extend great welcome (“letting down a bunk” reserved for special friend). 
41.談 [xUan2tan2], v.i., make a rambling, discursive talk. 
42.望 [xUan2wang4], v.i., to wish, to long for, think of longingly, hope in the distance. 
43.異 [xUan2yi4], adj., see [xUan2shu1]↑.