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Isa Cuellar
Isa Cuellar
5 years ago

The heart radical indicates it is a feeling and the second component, is the “white” character, because many of us fear seeing the white light too soon.

Kat Flanigen
Kat Flanigen
5 years ago

this character looks like a person standing afraid on the left, from a large animal on the right

Tony Kinninger
Tony Kinninger
5 years ago

It has the heart radical and the white character on the right. So, someone is afraid of a white ghost.

Maria Fok
Maria Fok
4 years ago

For the first component, when you get scared, your “heart” is startled, and then become pale or “white” for the second component.

Nicole Cheah
Nicole Cheah
4 years ago

the right hand side of this character (although it is not identical), reminds me of the character, “自,“ which is a part of the word “自己,“ meaning “alone.” and sometimes people have fears or they are AFRAID of being alone.

Oyunbolor Buyannemekh
Oyunbolor Buyannemekh
4 years ago

Radicle on the left means the heart and radicle on the right means white. So, I remember this character as my heart pounded quickly and my face turned pale and white because I’m AFRAID.

Sherab Ghale
Sherab Ghale
3 years ago

your “HEART’ beats fast when you’re “AFRAID OF” something.

Mahrukh Shaikh
Mahrukh Shaikh
3 years ago

you’re afraid with your whole heart (怕)

Dome Suarez Vivanco
Dome Suarez Vivanco
3 years ago

When you are AFRAID, your heart (忄) races extremely fast.

Yuni Song
Yuni Song
2 years ago

if your hearbeat gets ‘faster’ you are afraid of something

Nomun Altan-Ochir
Nomun Altan-Ochir
2 years ago

When the radical for ‘heart’ is combined with the character on the right side(looks like 0) in Chinese, it indicated the character which means ‘to fear’ or ‘to be afraid of.

Maral
Maral
2 years ago

The left radical with the right radical comes up a with a meaning “to be afraid of until your hair turns white”.

Jinu Shim
Jinu Shim
2 years ago

Heart radical on the left and right part means color white.

柯舒悦
柯舒悦
2 years ago

Has the heart radical and when I am scared my heart starts racing.

郑惠元
郑惠元
1 year ago

The left radical that signifies heart is next to the “Bái” character, which means “white” or “blank” by itself; since when you’re afraid your HEART goes BLANK, this character means “afraid.”

Munkh-Erdene Altanbaatar
Munkh-Erdene Altanbaatar
2 years ago

The radical on the left means “heart,” and on the right means “white.” The face turns white when somebody is extremely afraid.

AJ Noble
AJ Noble
2 years ago

The radical means heart and the second half mean white, when you see a ghost (that is white) it makes your heart race.

Dinobi Ibegbu
Dinobi Ibegbu
2 years ago

the heart radical is beside the character meaning “white” because when someone is AFRAID OF SOMETHING, their heart beats fast and their face turns pale or white.

Berenice Lara
Berenice Lara
1 year ago

The radical of on the left is our heart and then we have on the left the character for white. Whenever you’re scared you can think of your blood not rushing making your heart (and face) turn pale.

Michaella Blemur
Michaella Blemur
1 year ago

The heart radical is on the left and the character meaning ‘white’ is on the right. The character on the left looks like a spear, and the right character, a guard. The guard’s face turns pale white though they have a spear because they wear their heart on their sleeve.

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Anna
Anna
1 year ago

The radical means that fear is connected to heart, ghosts are usually white and something we are afraid of.

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NYU Abu Dhabi
Sara
Sara
1 year ago

When we’re afraid our heart often skips a beat and we turn white

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NYU Shanghai
Seung Guk Park
Seung Guk Park
1 year ago

The ‘heart’ is becoming ‘pale’, which seems TO BE AFRAID OF something.

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NYU Shanghai
Sondor Ts
Sondor Ts
1 year ago

With “heart” article, when we “afraid” something we feel it in our heart.

zere
zere
1 year ago

looks like a handle for a RACKET and a net

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NYU Shanghai
zere
zere
1 year ago

reminds me of a person scaring someone, and the character for “white” is opening its mouth because it is scared

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NYU Shanghai
Haya
Haya
1 year ago

this looks like a child hiding behind a cupboard because they are afraid of something

ananya
ananya
1 year ago

the heart radical on the right, the person FEARS the large character next to him.

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NYU Shanghai
Mishka
Mishka
1 year ago

it looks like a skinny person is SCARED to face another bigger person in /front of him

白新怡
白新怡
1 year ago

The character 怕 ‘s radical is heart 心 followed by the character 白 white. When you are scared, your HEART stops a while and your face turns WHITE/PALE.

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NYU Shanghai
Oyuka B
Oyuka B
1 year ago

The right character is heart, left one is white (bai). maybe it refers to feeling equivalent to blood being squeezed out of one’s heart, becoming white.

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NYU Shanghai
Nghia Nim
Nghia Nim
1 year ago

怕 combines the radicals 心 (heart) and 白 (white). Think of a heart turning white with fear.

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NYU Abu Dhabi
Linh Hoang
Linh Hoang
1 year ago

left side is your heart, and right side is the white component. when your heart is SCARED, you turned white

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NYU Abu Dhabi
Julia Murphy
Julia Murphy
5 months ago

This character has the heart ands white radical together. I remember this because when you scared you turn pale.

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NYU Shanghai
Bryant Paulino
Bryant Paulino
5 months ago

The heart radical on the left plus the character for “pure/white” on the right helps me understand that something is happening to your heart, so you (or your face) turn white out of fear.

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NYU Shanghai
Brenna
Brenna
8 days ago

There is a day called a “White day” where the male gives back the valentine chocolate they got from a girl a month after valentines day. This Chinese character reminded me this because the heart radical on the right is making you TO BE AFRAID OF giving back the chocolate to the girl on WHITE day ( the character on the left) because they are nervous.

Bindy
Bindy
8 days ago

if your heart (radical) becomes white(right part) you should be AFRAID OF it

Valery Magne
Valery Magne
7 days ago

I like to remember this character since it has a heart radical and looks that has something WHITE at the right.

masha
masha
4 days ago

The radical 忄 means heart, and 白 means white, so when you’re scared, your heart turns pale.

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NYU Shanghai
Nurbol
Nurbol
3 days ago

Imagine your heart beating fast because you are afraid.