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生怕

shēng pà

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

生怕 (shēng pà) means "to fear; afraid; extremely nervous". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 生怕 means

1. to fear
2. afraid
3. extremely nervous
4. for fear that
5. to avoid
6. so as not to

The characters in 生怕

• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 怕pàto be afraid; to fear; to dread

Words containing 生怕

• 贪生怕死tān shēng pà sǐgreedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly; clinging abjectly to life…

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