xià, hè
scare
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 下 represents the sound. Simplified form of 嚇.
Evolution
Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 吓
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to scare | ||
to be really frightened | ||
to threaten | ||
to scare | ||
to frighten |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 50.6007% of movies
887th most common character in movies
1466th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5413 |
Sources
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