(xià) - to frighten, to scare, to be startled in Mandarin
xiàTraditional: 嚇
Translation
to frighten, to scare, to be startled
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the mouth radical 口 evokes the cry of fright, while 下 (xià) supplies the sound; it means to frighten or to be startled.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 口 (mouth radical) + 下 (xià, phonetic)
Stroke order
吓
Examples
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You startled me.
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Do not frighten the child.
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That noise gave me a fright.
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He was so scared he could not speak.
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This film scared her to tears.
吓 (xià) means to frighten, to scare, to be startled. It is a verb for giving someone a fright.
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