敢
gǎn HSK3

to dare

敢 gǎn
to dare auxiliaryverb
to dare; to have the courage or bravery to do something

问题是：你敢吗？

wèn​tí shì: nǐ gǎn ma?

The question is, do you dare?

brave adjective
bold; courageous; daring
to be sure verb
to have the confidence to make a judgment; to be certain or sure of something

我敢打赌，你想念纽约。

wǒ gǎn dǎ dǔ, nǐ xiǎng​niàn niǔ​yuē.

I bet you miss New York.

是的，我敢肯定。

shì​de, wǒ gǎn kěn​dìng.

Yeah, I'm sure.

[polite]
used before a verb to politely indicate that one's action is bold or venturesome; meaning "may I venture to..." or "dare I ask..."
perhaps
(colloquial) used to express a guess or suspicion, similar to "could it be that" or "perhaps"
surname
a Chinese surname
how could
(literary) used to form a rhetorical question, meaning "how could it be that..."

Frequency
Character
Written text
795th most common 229.1 per million
Movie subtitles
617th most common 226.0 per million appears in 70% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
258.3 per million appears in 65% of films
Written text
93.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+6562

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)