嚇
xiàhè HSK5

scare

吓 (嚇) xià frequency
frighten verb
to cause someone to feel fear or to be startled

突然的雷声吓了我一跳。

tū​rán de léi​shēng xià le wǒ yī tiào.

The sudden thunder gave me a startle.

吓 (嚇) hè
astonishment verb
interjection expressing surprise or astonishment

吓，这件衣服竟然要一千块！

hè, zhè jiàn yī​fu jìng​rán yào yī​qiān kuài!

Whoa! This outfit actually costs a thousand yuan!

scare verb
to scare, intimidate, or threaten

他那连吓带骗的手段，在这里是行不通的。

tā nà lián hè dài piàn de shǒu​duàn, zài zhè​lǐ shì xíng​bu​tōng de.

His tactics of intimidation and deception won't work here.

tut-tut verb
interjection expressing disapproval or scolding

吓！你怎么能这样说话？

hè! nǐ zěn​me néng zhè​yàng shuō​huà?

Hey! How can you talk like that?

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,466th most common 75.6 per million
Movie subtitles
887th most common 130.8 per million appears in 51% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
101.6 per million appears in 34% of films
Written text
44.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Simplified
吓
Strokes
17
Unicode
U+5687

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