怔
2 readings · tap one to hear it
(bound form) startled; terrified; panic-stricken
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 心 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 怔
- Common rank
- #3,312
- Unicode
- U+6014
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
terror-stricken · Heisig RSH #1811
state of mind + 正 correct
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 怔
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 怔神儿 | lost in thought; in a daze | |
| 目怔口呆 | lit. eye startled, mouth struck dumb (idiom); stunned; stupefied | |
| 发怔 | baffled; nonplussed | |
| 怔住 | dumbfounded; stunned | |
| 魔怔 | crazed; possessed; bewitched | |
| 怔怔 | in a daze | |
| 怔忪 | frightened; scared; terrified | |
| 怔忡 | (of the heart) palpitating with fear; palpitation (Chinese medicine) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 正 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 正 sound part | straight, right, proper, correct, just, true | |
| 政 | government, politics | |
| 症 | ailment, disease, illness | |
| 征 | to summon, to recruit; levy, tax; journey; invasion | |
| 整 | neat, orderly, whole; to repair, to mend | |
| 罡 | the stars at the end of the Big Dipper | |
| 徵 | to summon, to recruit; levy, tax; journey; invasion | |
| 钲 | an army's marching gong |