(kě pà) - frightening, terrible, scary in Mandarin

kěpà

Traditional: 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yǔ。

Last night's rain was dreadful.

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This word is part of lesson 15.