gǎn in a sentence

Dare (courage)

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 5 sentences

敢 (gǎn) means Dare (courage). Below are 5 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

我不 一个人去那儿。

Wǒ bù gǎn yí ge rén qù nàr.

I do not dare go there alone.

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跟他说这件事吗?

Nǐ gǎn gēn tā shuō zhè jiàn shì ma?

Do you dare tell him about this?

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他是个勇 的孩子。

Tā shì ge yǒnggǎn de háizi.

He is a brave child.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 勇敢

遇到困难要勇 一点儿。

Yùdào kùnnan yào yǒnggǎn yìdiǎnr.

Be a bit braver when you meet difficulties.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 勇敢

From the graded readers

我不 说自己爱上了跑步——说实话,我到现在也不太喜欢。

wǒ bùgǎn shuō zìjǐ àishàng le / liǎo / liào pǎobù—— shuō shíhuà, wǒ dào xiànzài yěbù tài xǐhuan.

I wouldn't claim to have fallen in love with running — honestly, I still don't much like it.

Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running

Words that contain 敢

Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.

Questions about 敢

How is 敢 used in a sentence?

This page shows 5 sentences using 敢 (gǎn, "Dare (courage)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Why do some sentences show 敢 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 敢 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.

Is 敢 an HSK word?

Yes — 敢 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 敢?

The dictionary page for 敢 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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