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不敢当

bù gǎn dāng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word Traditional 不敢當

不敢当 (bù gǎn dāng) means "lit. I dare not (accept the honor); fig. I don't deserve your praise; you flatter me". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 不敢当 means

1. lit. I dare not (accept the honor); fig. I don't deserve your praise
2. you flatter me

The characters in 不敢当

• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 敢gǎnto dare; daring; (polite) may I venture
• 当dāng(onomatopoeia) dong; ding dong (bell)

Example sentences

• 不敢当。
  I don't deserve it.

Where 不敢当 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · bó–bǔ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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