恐怕 kǒngpà▶ Me temo

Stroke order

恐怕 is written in 18 strokes across 2 characters.

• 恐 — 10 strokes
• 怕 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. fear
2. to dread
3. I'm afraid that...
4. perhaps
5. maybe

Example sentences

• 恐怕我今天不能参加了。Kǒngpà wǒ jīntiān bù néng cānjiā le.I'm afraid I cannot attend today.
• 天这么黑，恐怕要下雨了。Tiān zhème hēi, kǒngpà yào xià yǔ le.The sky is so dark, I'm afraid it is going to rain.

Related words

• 可怕terrible
• 哪怕incluso si
• 害怕Miedo; temer
• 恐吓intimidar
• 恐怖terror
• 恐惧Miedo; temer

恐怕 is pronounced kǒngpà and means “Me temo”. It belongs to the HSK 4 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 恐怕 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.