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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *吓* | 吓* | *吓
to frighten / to scare
HSK 5
(idiom) a false alarm; a scare that turns out to be nothing
to scare / to frighten
HSK 7-9
to scare / scary / frightening
HSK 7-9
to be scared out of one's wits / to scare stiff
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *吓* | 吓* | *吓
to scare / to intimidate / to threaten / (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut / (interjection showing astonishment)
to scare away
to scare people / to bluff / to deceive
frightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk / reds under the beds
lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom) / fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy / to punish sb as a warning to others
lit. to pretend to be in contact with supernatural beings (idiom); fig. to create a false sense of mystery; to play tricks to deceive or scare others; to engage in hocus-pocus
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *唬* | 唬* | *唬
a tiger's roar / to scare / to intimidate / (coll.) to fool / to bluff
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *猇* | 猇* | *猇
the scream or roar of a tiger / to intimidate / to scare
to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people
lit. one scare after another in a single night (idiom) / fig. to live in fear
to scare a bird into flight
to terrify / to scare sb
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *迋* | 迋* | *迋
to deceive / to scare / to travel


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