怕
pà HSK2

to fear

怕 pà
to fear verb
to be afraid; to dread; to be scared of something

他从来没有告诉我他怕狗。

tā cóng​lái méi​yǒu gào​sù wǒ tā pà gǒu.

He never told me he was afraid of dogs.

“你为什么怕水？”

“ nǐ wèi​shén​me pà shuǐ?”

“Why are you afraid of water?”

perhaps adverbconjunction
perhaps; I suppose; similar to 恐怕 kǒng​pà but with less force
to worry verb
to worry; to be anxious that something might happen

他怕我会生气。

tā pà wǒ huì shēng qì.

He was afraid I would be angry.

to be unable to endure verb
to be unable to endure or stand something; to be sensitive to

你以前从来都不怕冷的。

nǐ yǐ​qián cóng​lái dōu bù pà lěng de.

You were never scared of the cold before.

Pa
a Chinese surname
how could it be
used in rhetorical questions to express doubt or emphasis, meaning how could it be that or is it possible that

Cross-References

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Frequency
Character
Written text
631st most common 328.3 per million
Movie subtitles
398th most common 374.7 per million appears in 82% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
131.0 per million appears in 38% of films
Written text
119.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+6015

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