懸心吊膽

Chinese

		hang; suspend	heart; mind	to hang; to suspend	the gall; the nerve; courage the gall; the nerve; courage; guts; gall bladder
trad. (懸心吊膽)		懸	心	吊	膽
simp. (悬心吊胆)		悬	心	吊	胆

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xuánxīndiàodǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄉㄧㄠˋ ㄉㄢˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xuánxīndiàodǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄉㄧㄠˋ ㄉㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syuánsindiàodǎn
    • Wade–Giles: hsüan²-hsin¹-tiao⁴-tan³
    • Yale: sywán-syīn-dyàu-dǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyuanshindiawdaan
    • Palladius: сюаньсиньдяодань (sjuanʹsinʹdjaodanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy̯ɛn³⁵ ɕin⁵⁵ ti̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ tän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Idiom

懸心吊膽

1. Synonym of 提心吊膽／提心吊胆 (tíxīndiàodǎn, “to be on tenterhooks”)

   • 但他們往往遭農會嚴厲拒絕，所以他們總是懸心吊膽地過日子 [MSC, trad.]
     但他们往往遭农会严厉拒绝，所以他们总是悬心吊胆地过日子 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Dàn tāmen wǎngwǎng zāo nónghuì yánlì jùjué, suǒyǐ tāmen zǒngshì xuánxīndiàodǎn de guò rìzi [Pinyin]

     But more often than not they are turned down flat by the peasant associations, and so they are always on tenterhooks