Kanji
N3 8 strokes Grade 8 freq #1325

dreadful, be frightened, fearful

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

heart kokoro

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

fear; dread
phobia; morbid fear
awe; fear
hylophobia; fear of forests or wooded areas
eremophobia; monophobia
androphobia
mysophobia; germophobia
aichmophobia (fear of sharply pointed objects); belonephobia
fear of having blank days (e.g. for a freelancer); fear of not having anything planned
coulrophobia; fear of clowns

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

scary; frightening
to be afraid (of); to fear
to be seized with fear; to be seized with panic
pathological fear of passing wind
Islamophobia
when you are in a state of fear, the smallest thing will startle you; a fleeing soldier takes fright even from a head of silver grass
fear of death
once bitten twice shy; to become over cautious from a bad experience

Example sentences

He was paralyzed by fear.

He was seized with fear.

He wonders if you are afraid of snakes.

He was scared green.