胆大 (dǎn dà) — bold, audacious | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

Literally 'gall big', 胆大 describes a person who is bold and unafraid of risk. Pairs with 心细 ('careful') in the common contrast 胆大心细 — bold in action but careful in detail.

verb

boldaudacious

Examples

胆大，。
Tā dǎn dà, bú pà rèn hé kùn nan.
He is bold and not afraid of any difficulty.
胆大。
Zhè ge jì huà xū yào dǎn dà de rén lái zhí xíng.
This plan needs bold people to carry it out.
胆大。
Tā dǎn dà dì tí chū le zì jǐ de kàn fǎ.
She boldly put forward her own opinion.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

主谓zhǔwèiSubject + predicate

A small sentence frozen into a word: something, and what it does or is.

胆dǎncourage

“胆” refers to courage, and “大” says it is large, hence bold.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

⺼Written in full as肉ròubody part

Sound part声符shēngfú

旦

旦dàn胆dǎn

Same sound today

胆 combines ⺼, written as 肉 when full, for a body part, with 旦 as a sound part.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The form 大 is a picture of a person standing and facing forward, not of someone stretching their arms.

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