"To threaten" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 威胁 | wēi xié | to threaten / to menace |   |
| 恐吓 | kǒng hè | to threaten / to menace | |
| 扬言 | yáng yán | to put about (a story, plan, threat etc) / to let it be known (esp. of threat or malicious story) / to threaten | |
| 要挟 | yāo xié | to threaten / to blackmail | |
| 威逼 | wēi bī | to threaten / to coerce / to intimidate | |
| 拿捏 | ná niē | (lit. and fig.) to grasp / to control / (dialect) affecting shyness / coy / (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties / to threaten | |
| 威吓 | wēi hè | to threaten / to intimidate / to cow | |
| 恫吓 | dòng hè | to intimidate / to threaten | |
| 吓 |  hè | to scare / to intimidate / to threaten / (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut / (interjection showing astonishment) | |
