恐怖 kǒngbù▶ terror

Stroke order

恐怖 is written in 18 strokes across 2 characters.

• 恐 — 10 strokes
• 怖 — 8 strokes

Senses

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

Related words

• 恐吓intimidar
• 恐惧Miedo; temer
• 争先恐后esforzarse por ser el primero; competir entre sí
• 恐怕Me temo

恐怖 is pronounced kǒngbù and means “terror”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 恐怖 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.