| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 懸念 | けねん | worry, fear, anxiety, concern |
| 懸命 | けんめい | eagerness, earnestness, risking one's life |
| 一生懸命 | いっしょうけんめい | very hard, with utmost effort, with all one's might, for dear life |
| 懸案 | けんあん | pending question, pending problem |
| 懸賞 | けんしょう | offering prizes, winning, reward |
| 懸け離れる | かけはなれる | to be very far apart from, to be remote, to be quite different from |
| 懸垂 | けんすい | pull-up, chin up, chinning |
| 命懸け | いのちがけ | life and death, risking one's life, risky, desperate |
| 懸かる | かかる | to take; to hang; to come into view, to arrive; to come under (a contract, a tax); to start (engines, motors); to attend, to deal with, to handle; to have started to, to be on the verge of; to overlap (e.g. information in a manual), to cover; to (come) at; to be fastened; to be covered (e.g. with dust, a table-cloth, etc.); to be caught in; to get a call; to depend on |
| 懸る | かかる | to take; to hang; to come into view, to arrive; to come under (a contract, a tax); to start (engines, motors); to attend, to deal with, to handle; to have started to, to be on the verge of; to overlap (e.g. information in a manual), to cover; to (come) at; to be fastened; to be covered (e.g. with dust, a table-cloth, etc.); to be caught in; to get a call; to depend on |
