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恐怕 Tôi e rằng, tôi sợ rằng
Stroke order
恐怕 is written in 18 strokes across 2 characters.
- 恐 — 10 strokes
- 怕 — 8 strokes
Senses
- fear
- to dread
- I'm afraid that...
- perhaps
- 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
恐怕 is pronounced kǒngpà and means “Tôi e rằng, tôi sợ rằng”. 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.