唬
hǔ HSK7

to intimidate

唬 hǔ
roar verb
the roar of a tiger

猛虎唬的一声，震彻山林。

měng​hǔ hǔ de yī shēng, zhèn chè shān​lín.

The tiger let out a roar that echoed through the mountain forest.

scare verb
to frighten or intimidate

他那副凶狠的样子把小孩唬住了。

tā nà fù xiōng​hěn de yàng​zi bǎ xiǎo​hái hǔ zhù le.

His fierce appearance frightened the child.

bluff verb
to fool or deceive someone, especially in a colloquial context

他那番话全是唬人的，别当真。

tā nà fān huà quán shì hǔ​rén de, bié dàng​zhēn.

His words were all a bluff; don't take them seriously.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,161st most common 8.03 per million
Movie subtitles
2,395th most common 10.1 per million appears in 6% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.95 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
3.51 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+552C

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)