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恐吓

kǒng hè

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 恐嚇

恐吓 (kǒng hè) means "to threaten; to menace". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 恐吓 means

1. to threaten
2. to menace

The characters in 恐吓

• 恐kǒngafraid; frightened; to fear
• 吓xiàto frighten; to scare

Example sentences

• 市长一家人一整天不断遭到了恐吓电话的骚扰。
  Shìzhǎng yījiārén yī zhěngtiān bù duàn zāodào le kǒnghè diànhuà de sāorǎo.
  The mayor's family was harassed with threatening phone calls all day.

Where 恐吓 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · kǒng–kǒu (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kǒng hè correctly.
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