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胆小鬼

dǎn xiǎo guǐ

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word Traditional 膽小鬼

胆小鬼 (dǎn xiǎo guǐ) means "coward". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 胆小鬼 means

1. coward

The characters in 胆小鬼

• 胆dǎngall bladder; courage; guts
• 小xiǎosmall; tiny; few
• 鬼guǐdisembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc…

Example sentences

• 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.
• 约翰看起来很勇敢，但其实是个胆小鬼。
  Yuēhàn kànqǐlai hěn yǒnggǎn, dàn qíshí shì gè dǎnxiǎoguǐ.
  John is brave in appearance, but is in reality a coward.

Where 胆小鬼 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Conflict, Anger & Frustration (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dǎn xiǎo guǐ correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.