怯

怯 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 心土戈 (PGI), four-corner 9403₁, composition ⿰忄去)

• 𠵐, 𢯖, 𨨤, 𢝍

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 382, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10491
• Dae Jaweon: page 712, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2283, character 6
• Unihan data for U+602F

Historical forms of the character 怯
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

怯

1. timid; cowardly
   • 2013 August 15, Dante Lam, 激戰 [jīzhàn, Unbeatable], spoken by 程輝 (Nick Cheung Ka Fai), Bona Film Group:

     行得上臺你就唔好怯喇，怯，你就輸成世。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     行得上台你就唔好怯喇，怯，你就输成世。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     haang⁴ dak¹ soeng⁵ toi⁴ nei⁵ zau⁶ m⁴ hou² hip³ laa³, hip³, nei⁵ zau⁶ syu¹ seng⁴ sai³.

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2. to fear; to be afraid of

   怯場／怯场  ―  qièchǎng  ―  to suffer from stage fright

   • 黃花不怯西風冷，只怕詩人兩鬢霜。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     黄花不怯西风冷，只怕诗人两鬓霜。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 12th—13th century, Xin Qiji, 鷓鴣天·翰墨諸君久擅場

     Huánghuā bù qiè xīfēng lěng, zhǐ pà shīrén liǎng bìn shuāng.

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (dialectal) vulgar; tawdry
4. weak; feeble

• “Query for 怯”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to be scared, to be frightened
2. timid; cowardly

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←こふ (kofu, historical)}
• Kan-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けふ (kefu, historical)}
• Kun: おびえる (obieru, 怯る)、おじける (ojikeru, 怯じける)、おそれる (osoreru, 怯れる)、ひるむ (hirumu, 怯む)、よわい (yowai, 怯い)

From Middle Chinese 怯 (MC khjaep).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

怯

Wikisource

怯 (eumhun 겁(怯)낼 겁 (geomnael geop))

1. fear, fright

• Naver Hanja Dictionary: 怯

怯: Hán Nôm readings: khiếp, khép

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