(kě pà) - frightening, terrible, scary in Mandarin
kěpàTraditional: 可怕
Translation
frightening, terrible, scary
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Word origin
可怕 means frightening or terrible, literally 'able to fear'. 可 (kě) means worthy of. 怕 (pà) means to fear, a phono-semantic compound with the 忄 'heart' radical and phonetic 白 (bái).
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 可 (kě, worthy of) + 怕 (pà, to fear)
Stroke order
可
怕
Examples
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This film is very scary.
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He had a frightening dream.
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The situation is more terrible than imagined.
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I had a terrible dream last night.
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Last night's rain was dreadful.
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