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斗胆
dǒu​dǎn

to make bold

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
斗胆 斗膽 dǒu//dǎn
to make bold
(courteous) to venture or take the liberty of doing something; to be so bold as to. Literally describes a person whose courage is as large as a 斗 dǒu (decaliter) measure.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.390 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.609 per million

Cross-References

See

  • 斗 dǒu

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)