(kě pà) - frightening, terrible, scary in Mandarin
kěpàTraditional: 可怕
HSK 4
#704 of 5,000 Core 1000
Translation
frightening, terrible, scary
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
。
This film is very scary.
。
He had a frightening dream.
。
The situation is more terrible than imagined.
。
I had a terrible dream last night.
雨。
Last night's rain was dreadful.
Add to review queue
Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.
Go to my review queueThis word is part of lesson 15.