吓

嚇traditional

HSK 6#1856 by frequencyradical 口

xià["v"]

to frighten; to scare

hè

to scare; to intimidate; to threaten; (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut; (interjection showing astonishment)

Examples

我吓一跳。

I was shocked.

别这样吓我吧！

Don't scare me like that!

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.