惊
jīng HSK4

startle, frighten

惊 (驚) jīng
frightened verb
to be scared or shocked by a sudden event

半夜那声巨大的雷响，让他吓了一惊。

bàn​yè nà shēng jù​dà de léi xiǎng, ràng tā xià le yī jīng.

He was startled by the loud clap of thunder in the middle of the night.

startle verb
to disturb or cause a person or animal to jump or flee

他在林中走得很轻，生怕惊了栖息的鸟。

tā zài lín zhōng zǒu de hěn qīng, shēng​pà jīng le qī​xī de niǎo.

He walked very lightly in the woods for fear of startling the birds.

Frequency
Character
Written text
659th most common 308.6 per million
Movie subtitles
653rd most common 207.0 per million appears in 66% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
19.8 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
50.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
驚
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+60CA

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