吓唬
xià​hu HSK7

to scare

吓唬 嚇唬 xià​hu
to scare verb
to frighten; to intimidate or threaten; used in colloquial speech

“辐射”这个术语通常用来吓唬人。

“ fú​shè” zhè​ge shù​yǔ tōng​cháng yòng lái xià​hu rén.

The term “radiation” is often used to scare people.

intimidation
the act of intimidating or scaring someone

Frequency
Movie subtitles
10.4 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
2.50 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)