掛念

See also: 挂念

Chinese

		to hang; to put up; to suspend	to miss; to think of; to read to miss; to think of; to read; to study (a subject); to attend (a school); to read aloud; idea; remembrance; twenty
trad. (掛念)		掛	念
simp. (挂念)		挂	念

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guàniàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄚˋ ㄋㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwaa³ nim⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): koa-ngiam

  (Meixian, Guangdong): gua⁴ ngiam⁴

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kòa-liām / khòa-liām

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guàniàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄚˋ ㄋㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guàniàn
    • Wade–Giles: kua⁴-nien⁴
    • Yale: gwà-nyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guahniann
    • Palladius: гуанянь (guanjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ä⁵¹⁻⁵³ ni̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwaa³ nim⁶
    • Yale: gwa nihm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwaa³ nim⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: gua³ nim⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷaː³³ niːm²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: koa-ngiam
    • Hakka Romanization System: gua ngiam
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gua⁴ ngiam⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /ku̯a⁵⁵ ŋi̯am⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: gua⁴ ngiam⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /kua⁵³⁻⁵⁵ ŋiam⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kòa-liām
    • Tâi-lô: kuà-liām
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koarliam
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kua²¹⁻⁴¹ liam³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kua²¹⁻⁵³ liam²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kua⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ liam⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kua¹¹⁻⁵³ liam³³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khòa-liām
    • Tâi-lô: khuà-liām
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qoarliam
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰua¹¹⁻⁵³ liam³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰua²¹⁻⁴¹ liam³³/

Verb

掛念

1. to worry; to be concerned; to miss somebody

   我現在身在他鄉，非常掛念家人。 [MSC, trad.]
   我现在身在他乡，非常挂念家人。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ xiànzài shēn zài tāxiāng, fēicháng guàniàn jiārén. [Pinyin]

   I'm away from home, and miss my family terribly.

Synonyms

• 心念 (Hokkien)
• 念 (niàn) (literary, or in compounds)
• 惦念 (diànniàn)
• 惦記／惦记 (diànjì)
• 懸／悬 (xuán) (literary, or in compounds)
• 懸念／悬念 (xuánniàn) (formal)
• 懸想／悬想 (xuánxiǎng)
• 掛意／挂意 (guàyì)
• 掛記／挂记 (Nanchang Gan, Yudu Hakka)
• 數念／数念 (siàu-liām) (Hokkien)
• 牽掛／牵挂 (qiānguà)
• 眷顧／眷顾 (juàngù) (formal)
• 記掛／记挂 (jìguà) (dialectal)
• 顧念／顾念 (gùniàn)