漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
怖: dreadful, be frightened
Also: fearful
JLPT N38 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
忄 carries the meaning · 布 gives the sound
8 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
フfu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 恐怖きょうふterror
- 恐怖症きょうふしょうphobia
- 畏怖いふawe; fear; dread
こわいkowai · kun'yomi · on its own
- 怖いこわいscary, frightening [adj.]
こわがるkowagaru · kun'yomi
- 怖がるこわがるbe afraid of, fear [v.i.]
Also read ホ, おじる, おそれる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side怖 dreadful · 忄
vs希 hope · 乂In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · bù
Same form: 怖 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 怖 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 怖 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin bù most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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