慫
sǒng

instigate

怂 (慫) sǒng
instigate verb
to incite, egg on, or encourage someone (typically used in the compound 怂恿 sǒng​yǒng)

在他的再三怂恿下，我终于决定辞职去环球旅行。

zài tā de zài​sān sǒng​yǒng xià, wǒ zhōng​yú jué​dìng cí​zhí qù huán​qiú lǚ​xíng.

Under his repeated egging on, I finally decided to quit my job and travel the world.

terrified verb
(literary) extremely frightened or alarmed

他虽然嘴硬，但面对那个大块头时，心里明显发怂了。

tā suī​rán zuǐ​yìng, dàn miàn​duì nà​gè dà​kuài​tóu shí, xīn​li míng​xiǎn fā​sǒng le.

Despite his tough talk, he clearly lost his nerve when facing that big guy.

Cross-References

Variant of

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,702nd most common 4.13 per million
Movie subtitles
3,517th most common 1.41 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.180 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
4.30 per million

Details
Simplified
怂
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+616B

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