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胆小鬼

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HSK 5 3-character word Traditional 膽小鬼

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.