Character Details
| frighten (to) | Ascii: 30693 | w38 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 吓 | xià | tsee:ah | 4 | 口 (mouth) + 下 (down) → scare | 吓 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Riding a clear glass elevator could really terrify you. As you look below your mouth opens wide in fear. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 3] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - You scared me | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 30 - 口 | kǒu | mouth | mouth | square mouth | 口 吃 和 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 口 (mouth) + 下 (down) → scare | 口 (semantic) | 下 (phonetic) | phonetic from 下 | ||||||||