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恐怖

kǒng bù 3–4

terrible; frightful; frightening; terror; terrorist

HSK level
HSK 7
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 7
Characters
2
恐 · 怖
Syllables
2
kǒng bù
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,623

Part of speech: a,an

Character by character

  • 恐kǒng10 strokesHSK 3fear; fearful, apprehensive
  • 怖bù8 strokesHSK 5terror, fear; frighten; terrified

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我痛恨恐怖主义组织。

    Wǒ tòng hèn kǒng bù zhǔ yì zǔ zhī

    I hate terrorist organizations.

  • 我从没读过那么恐怖的小说。

    Wǒ cóng méi dú guo nà me kǒng bù de xiǎo shuō

    I have never read such a scary novel.

  • 一个人的恐怖分子为另人的自由战士。

    Yī gè rén de kǒng bù fèn zǐ wèi lìng rén de zì yóu zhàn shì

    One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

  • 这部恐怖片很吓人，我一看就睡不着觉了。

    Zhè bù kǒng bù piàn hěn xià rén wǒ yī kàn jiù shuì bù zhe jiào le

    This horror movie is really scary. I couldn't sleep after I watched it.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 恐怖. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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