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恐怕

kǒng pà 3–4

fear; to dread; I'm afraid that...; perhaps; maybe

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
恐 · 怕
Syllables
2
kǒng pà
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 2,245

Part of speech: d

Character by character

  • 恐kǒng10 strokesHSK 3fear; fearful, apprehensive
  • 怕pà8 strokesHSK 2to fear, be afraid of; apprehensive

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

Example sentences

  • 恐怕不行。

    Kǒng pà bù xíng

    I'm afraid not.

  • 恐怕你误解我了。

    Kǒng pà nǐ wù jiě wǒ le

    I'm afraid you misunderstood me.

  • 恐怕我现在得走了。

    Kǒng pà wǒ xiàn zài de zǒu le

    I'm afraid I have to go now.

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 恐怕. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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