Chinese Vocabulary
怕
to fear / be scared
pà
Usage
To be afraid. 很多人都怕 — many people were scared. Often used as a one-syllable verb; the disyllabic 害怕 is more formal.
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怕 appears in 2 podcast episodes at natural native speed, with full Chinese script, pinyin, and line-by-line English translation.