吓死宝宝了

嚇死寶寶了

xiàsǐ bǎobao le

phrase

Meanings

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

Characters

to death (intensifier)

baby (reduplicated)

perfective particle

Examples

HSK 6

你怎么突然从后面冒出来，吓死宝宝了！

Nǐ zěnme tūrán cóng hòumiàn mào chūlái, xiàsǐbǎobaole!

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

HSK 6

看到余额只剩十块，吓死宝宝了。

Kàndào yú'é zhǐ shèng shí kuài, xiàsǐbǎobaole.

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