Chinese symbol for “precipice”
悬崖
xuán yá
Traditional: 懸崖
precipice; overhanging cliff
The closest CC-CEDICT match for precipice is 悬崖 (xuán yá), defined as: precipice; overhanging cliff.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “precipice”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 崖 | yá | precipice; cliff; Taiwan pr. [yai2] |
| 绝壁 (絕壁) | jué bì | precipice |
| 峭壁 | qiào bì | cliff; steep |
| 断崖 (斷崖) | duàn yá | steep cliff; crag |
| 崖壁 | yá bì | escarpment; precipice |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 悬崖.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 悬挂 (懸掛) | xuán guà | to suspend; to hang |
| 悬殊 (懸殊) | xuán shū | vastly different; poles apart |
| 悬赏 (懸賞) | xuán shǎng | to offer a reward; bounty |
| 悬浮 (懸浮) | xuán fú | to float (in the air etc); suspension |
| 悬念 (懸念) | xuán niàn | suspense in a movie, play etc; concern for sb's welfare |
| 断崖 (斷崖) | duàn yá | steep cliff; crag |
| 山崖 | shān yá | cliff |
| 悬崖勒马 (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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “precipice”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.