Chinese symbol for “aghast”
骇然
hài rán
Traditional: 駭然
overwhelmed with shock, horror or amazement; dumbstruck; aghast
The closest CC-CEDICT match for aghast is 骇然 (hài rán), defined as: overwhelmed with shock, horror or amazement; dumbstruck; aghast.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 骇然.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 骇客 (駭客) | hài kè | (computing) (loanword) hacker |
| 骇人听闻 (駭人聽聞) | hài rén tīng wén | shocking; horrifying |
| 骇人 (駭人) | hài rén | terrifying; shocking |
| 惊世骇俗 (驚世駭俗) | jīng shì hài sú | universally shocking; to offend the whole of society |
| 惊骇 (驚駭) | jīng hài | to be shocked; to be appalled |
| 惊涛骇浪 (驚濤駭浪) | jīng tāo hài làng | perilous situation |
| 虽然 (雖然) | suī rán | although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是 (kě shì) or 但是 (dàn shì) etc) |
| 然后 (然後) | rán hòu | then; after that; afterwards |
See also: Japanese symbol for “aghast”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.