(pà) - to fear, to be afraid of in Mandarin
pàTraditional: 怕
Translation
to fear, to be afraid of
Word origin
怕 (pà) 'to fear, to be afraid' is a phono-semantic compound: the heart radical 忄(心, heart/mind) gives the emotional meaning, and 白 (bái) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 忄(heart, meaning) + 白 (bái, phonetic)
Stroke order
怕
Examples
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I'm afraid of dogs.
，。
Don't be afraid, it's fine.
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He's afraid of being late.
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I'm afraid of the dark.
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Don't be afraid, I'm here.
Where this fits
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 怕.
Used in
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