胆
dǎn HSK5

gall bladder

胆 膽 dǎn
courage nounadjective
Bravery or guts; derived from the traditional Chinese belief that the gallbladder is the source of a person's courage.
gallbladder noun
The gallbladder; a bitter organ located near the liver that aids in digestion; also referred to as 胆囊 dǎn​náng.
liner
The inner part of an object used for holding air or water, such as the bladder of a ball or the glass lining of a thermos flask.
surname
A Chinese surname

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Has erhua variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,352nd most common 90.4 per million
Movie subtitles
1,370th most common 53.1 per million appears in 26% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
8.88 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
17.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Traditional
膽
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+80C6

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