Read Edit View history 只怕 zhǐpà afraid Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 只怕 zhǐpà afraid adverb used to express concern or apprehension that an undesirable outcome is possible 我只怕他已经忘了这件事。 wǒ zhǐpà tā yǐjīng wàng le zhè jiàn shì. I'm just afraid he has already forgotten about this. perhaps adverb indicating a high likelihood or probability of a situation, often a negative one 既然这么晚了，他只怕是不来了。 jìrán zhème wǎn le, tā zhǐpà shì bù lái le. Since it's so late, I'm afraid he won't be coming. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.830 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 11.3 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
只怕 zhǐpà afraid adverb used to express concern or apprehension that an undesirable outcome is possible 我只怕他已经忘了这件事。 wǒ zhǐpà tā yǐjīng wàng le zhè jiàn shì. I'm just afraid he has already forgotten about this. perhaps adverb indicating a high likelihood or probability of a situation, often a negative one 既然这么晚了，他只怕是不来了。 jìrán zhème wǎn le, tā zhǐpà shì bù lái le. Since it's so late, I'm afraid he won't be coming. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.830 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 11.3 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)