Chinese symbol for “suspense”
悬疑
xuán yí
Traditional: 懸疑
suspense
The closest CC-CEDICT match for suspense is 悬疑 (xuán yí), defined as: suspense.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 悬疑.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 悬挂 (懸掛) | xuán guà | to suspend; to hang |
| 悬崖 (懸崖) | xuán yá | precipice; overhanging cliff |
| 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 |
| 怀疑 (懷疑) | huái yí | to doubt (sth); to be skeptical of; to have one's doubts; to harbor suspicions; to suspect that |
| 质疑 (質疑) | zhì yí | to call into question; to challenge (the truth or validity of) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “suspense”.
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.