to eat bear heart and leopard gall (idiom); to pluck up some courage
trad. 吃熊心豹子膽
Also written 吃熊心豹子膽【chī xióng xīn bào zi dǎn】
Characters in this word
6吃
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to eat; to consume, to eat at (a cafeteria etc), to eradicate; to destroy, to absorb, to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- Pinyin
- chī
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 143 of 2500
熊
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surname Xiong
- Pinyin
- Xióng
- Strokes
- 14
- Frequency
- 2291 of 2500
心
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
heart, mind, intention, center, core, CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]
- Pinyin
- xīn
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 837 of 2500
豹
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leopard, panther
- Pinyin
- bào
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 17308 of 2500
子
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son, child, seed, egg, small thing, 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat, viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4], ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north), subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
- Pinyin
- zǐ
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 2170 of 2500
胆
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gall bladder, courage, guts, gall, inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos)
- Pinyin
- dǎn
- Traditional
- 膽
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 15530 of 2500