Kanji1 / 8
怖 kanji
dreadful, be frightened, fearful
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
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Kun readings
こわいこわがるおじるおそれる
Variant forms
悑Words with 怖
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3恐怖Popularfear; dread; dismay; terror; horror; scare; panic
- —恐怖症Popularphobia; morbid fear
- —畏怖awe; fear; dread; fright
- —恐怖心fear; terror
- —恐怖感feeling of dread; awful feeling; sense of fear
- —恐怖政治politics of fear; terrorism; reign of terror (esp. in the French revolution)
- —恐怖映画horror film
- —畏怖嫌厭feelings of dread and aversion
- —恐怖物語scary story; horror story
- —閉所恐怖claustrophobia; fear of confined spaces
- —死の恐怖fear of death
- —恐怖の館house of horrors
- —恐怖指数fear index; volatility index
- —水恐怖症aquaphobia; pathological fear of water
- —死恐怖症fear of death; thanatophobia
- —高所恐怖症fear of heights; acrophobia
- —閉所恐怖症claustrophobia
- —対人恐怖症anthropophobia; social anxiety disorder
- —赤面恐怖症erythrophobia; fear of blushing
- —広場恐怖症agoraphobia