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  *膽* | 膽* | *膽
gall bladder / courage / guts / gall / inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos)
HSK 5
brazen / audacious / outrageous / bold / daring / fearless
HSK 5
to get one’s courage up / to embolden
HSK 7-9
bear gall (used in TCM)
sea urchin
openly and without fear / brazenly
rough gentian / Japanese gentian (Gentiana scabra)
to act boldly
to be scared out of one's wits / to scare stiff
to be scared stiff
gallbladder
panic-stricken / scared out of one's wits
boldness in pursuing one's sexual urges
courage
hear the wind and lose gall (idiom); terror-stricken at the news
lit. to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue 勾踐|勾践, in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom) / fig. to maintain one's resolve for revenge
(idiom) nervous; fearful; on edge
lit. to open one's liver and drip gall (idiom); wholehearted loyalty
solitary hero / maverick
cowardly
devoid of fear (idiom) / intrepid
the vacuum bottle within the outer case of a thermos
to pour out one's heart (idiom)
(courteous) to be so bold as to
(idiom) to be completely honest and sincere
inner container (e.g. the rice pot inside a rice cooker, the vacuum bottle inside a thermos, the tank inside a hot water heater, the bladder of a football)
individually courageous
rare food / ambrosia (delicacy)
snake gall (used in TCM)
to eat bear heart and leopard gall (idiom) / to pluck up some courage
to be perverse and suggestive towards the opposite sex, but shrinking back when provoked to act on it / to have perverted thoughts but no guts to actually do it / to be all talk and no action
in mortal fear (idiom)


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