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胆小

dǎn xiǎo

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 膽小

胆小 (dǎn xiǎo) means "cowardice; timid". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 胆小 means

1. cowardice
2. timid

The characters in 胆小

• 胆dǎngall bladder; courage; guts
• 小xiǎosmall; tiny; few

Example sentences

• 她胆小。
  She is cowardly.
• 他是个胆小鬼。
  Tā shì gè dǎnxiǎoguǐ.
  He is afraid of his own shadow.
• 汤姆是胆小鬼。
  Tom is a coward.
• 你就是胆小鬼。
  You're just a coward.
• 你们全都是胆小鬼
  Nǐmen quándōu shì dǎnxiǎoguǐ
  You're all chickenshits.
• 他们称他胆小鬼。
  They called him a coward.

Words starting with 胆小

• 胆小鬼dǎn xiǎo guǐcoward
• 胆小如鼠dǎn xiǎo rú shǔ(idiom) chicken-hearted; gutless

Words containing 胆小

• 撑死胆大的，饿死胆小的chēng sǐ dǎn dà de , è sǐ dǎn xiǎo defullness for the bold, famine for the timid (idiom)

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