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吓坏

xiàhuài

to be terrified

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to be terrified

02

to terrify sb

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 吓坏 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 吓坏 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我吓坏了。wǒ xià huài le。

I'm scared shitless.

别被吓坏了。bié bèi xià huài le。

Don't be terrified.

一开头她吓坏了, 后来才定下神来。yī kāi tóu tā xià huài le, hòu lái cái dìng xià shén lái。

At first she was terrified, then she pulled herself together.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 吓坏.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 吓坏.

Directly before

  • 我吓坏1
  • 被吓坏1
  • 她吓坏1

Directly after

  • 吓坏了3
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 吓坏

What does 吓坏 mean in Chinese?

吓坏 (xiàhuài) means to be terrified.

How do you pronounce 吓坏?

吓坏 is pronounced xiàhuài.

Is 吓坏 an HSK word?

吓坏 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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