吓死宝宝了

嚇死寶寶了

xiàsǐbǎobaole

phrase

Meanings

1 scared me to death! (cutesy slang)
2 literally 'scared baby to death'

Characters

to death (intensifier)

baby (reduplicated)

perfective particle

Examples

你怎么突然从后面冒出来，吓死宝宝了！

Nǐ zěnme tūrán cóng hòumiàn mào chūlái, xiàsǐ bǎobao le!

Why did you just pop out from behind me? You scared me to death!

看到余额只剩十块，吓死宝宝了。

Kàn dào yú'é zhǐ shèng shí kuài, xiàsǐ bǎobao le.

Saw my balance was down to ten yuan — nearly gave me a heart attack.

Tips

culture

Viral around 2015-2016. 宝宝 ('baby') here = a cutesy first-person pronoun ('lil' ol' me'). Came out of the 本宝宝 trend — using baby-talk pronouns for comic effect. Now feels slightly dated but still widely understood; overuse marks the speaker as trying to be cute.

register

Informal, playful, gender-neutral but used more often by women and younger speakers. Do not use in professional writing.

Stroke Order

吓 xià

死 sǐ

宝 bǎo

了 le