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Trad. 膽
- gall bladder
- courage
- guts
- gall
- inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos)
Trad. 膽敢
- to dare (negative connotation)
- to have the audacity to (do sth)
Trad. 內膽
- 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)
Trad. 披肝瀝膽
- lit. to open one's liver and drip gall (idiom); wholehearted loyalty
Trad. 赤膽忠心
- lit. red-bellied devotion (idiom); wholehearted loyalty
- to serve sb with body and soul
Trad. 膽小如鼠
- (idiom) chicken-hearted; gutless
Trad. 膽戰心驚
- to tremble with fear (idiom)
- scared witless
Trad. 壯起膽子
- to proceed with sth even though scared; to put on a brave face
Trad. 膽驚心顫
- see 心驚膽戰|心惊胆战[xin1 jing1 dan3 zhan4]
Trad. 膽鹼酯酶
- choline esterase (ChE), hydrolyzing enzyme in blood plasma
Trad. 獨膽英雄
- bold and courageous hero (idiom)
Trad. 乙酰膽鹼
- acetylcholine ACh (amine related to vitamin B complex)
Trad. 有色無膽
- 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
Trad. 剖肝瀝膽
- (idiom) to be completely honest and sincere
Trad. 色膽包天
- outrageously bold in one's lust
- debauched (idiom)
Trad. 心膽俱裂
- to be scared out of one's wits (idiom)
Trad. 狗膽包天
- extremely daring (idiom)
- foolhardy
Trad. 提心吊膽
- (idiom) nervous; fearful; on edge
Trad. 心驚膽戰
- lit. heart alarmed, trembling in fear (idiom); prostrate with fear
- scared witless
Trad. 心驚膽顫
- see 心驚膽戰|心惊胆战[xin1 jing1 dan3 zhan4]
Trad. 臥薪嘗膽
- lit. to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue 勾踐|勾践[Gou1 jian4], in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom)
- fig. to maintain one's resolve for revenge
Trad. 臥薪嚐膽
- variant of 臥薪嘗膽|卧薪尝胆[wo4 xin1 chang2 dan3]
Trad. 聞風喪膽
- hear the wind and lose gall (idiom); terror-stricken at the news
Trad. 肝膽相照
- to treat one another with absolute sincerity (idiom); to show total devotion
Trad. 吃熊心豹子膽
- to eat bear heart and leopard gall (idiom)
- to pluck up some courage