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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

胆子

dǎnzi

courage

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

courage

02

nerve

03

guts

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 胆子 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 胆子 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

你胆子很大。nǐ dǎn zi hěn dà。

You've got a lot of guts.

虽然我很想知道他的名字,只是我的胆子太小了,不敢去问。suī rán wǒ hěn xiǎng zhī dào tā de míng zì, zhǐ shì wǒ de dǎn zi tài xiǎo le, bù gǎn qù wèn。

Even though I really want to know his name, I don't have enough courage, and I'm afraid to go ask.

你胆子真的很大。nǐ dǎn zi zhēn de hěn dà。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 胆子.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 胆子.

Directly before

  • 你胆子2
  • 的胆子1

Directly after

  • 胆子太小1
  • 胆子很大1
  • 胆子真的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 胆子

What does 胆子 mean in Chinese?

胆子 (dǎnzi) means courage.

How do you pronounce 胆子?

胆子 is pronounced dǎnzi.

Is 胆子 an HSK word?

胆子 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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