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恐怖

kǒng bù

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

恐怖 (kǒng bù) means "terrible; frightful; frightening". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 恐怖 means

1. terrible
2. frightful
3. frightening
4. terror
5. terrorist

The characters in 恐怖

• 恐kǒngafraid; frightened; to fear
• 怖bùterror; terrified; afraid

Example sentences

• 恐怖片会吓到小孩。
  Kǒngbùpiàn huì xià dào xiǎohái.
  Scary movies will frighten the children.
• 我要去看恐怖电影。
  Wǒ yào qù kàn kǒngbùdiànyǐng.
  I'm going to see a horror film.
• 我痛恨恐怖主义组织。
  Wǒ tònghèn kǒngbùzhǔyì zǔzhī.
  I hate terrorist organizations.
• 我哥哥喜欢恐怖电影。
  Wǒ gēge xǐhuan kǒngbùdiànyǐng.
  My brother likes horror movies.
• 卡罗常常看恐怖电影。
  Carol often watches horror movies.
• 恐怖的场面让了他颤抖。
  Kǒngbù de chǎngmiàn ràng le tā chàndǒu.
  The terrible scene sent shivers down his spine.

Words starting with 恐怖

• 恐怖主义kǒng bù zhǔ yìterrorism
• 恐怖片kǒng bù piànhorror movie
• 恐怖分子kǒng bù fèn zǐterrorist
• 恐怖组织kǒng bù zǔ zhīterrorist organization
• 恐怖电影kǒng bù diàn yǐnghorror movie
• 恐怖主义者kǒng bù zhǔ yì zhěterrorist
• 恐怖症kǒng bù zhèngphobia
• 恐怖袭击kǒng bù xí jīterrorist attack
• 恐怖片儿kǒng bù piān rerhua variant of 恐怖片

Words containing 恐怖

• 白色恐怖Bái sè kǒng bùWhite Terror
• 基地恐怖组织Jī dì Kǒng bù Zǔ zhīAl-Qaeda; same as 基地组织
• 生物恐怖主义shēng wù kǒng bù zhǔ yìbioterrorism
• 广场恐怖症guǎng chǎng kǒng bù zhèngagoraphobia
• 血液恐怖症xuè yè kǒng bù zhèngblood phobia

Where 恐怖 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Miscellaneous Objects, Places & Terms B (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kǒng bù correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.