吓
Pinyin: xià
to scare
Example sentence
你吓了我一跳!
Nǐ xià le wǒ yí tiào!
You scared me!
What 吓 means
吓 (xià) is a Chinese word meaning “to scare”. It belongs to the Daily Actions topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.