怕

HSK 3#899 by frequencyradical 忄

Pà["v"]

to be afraid; to fear; to dread; to be unable to endure; perhaps

Examples

他怕狗。

He's afraid of dogs.

我怕死。

I am afraid of dying.

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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.