敢
Meanings
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- 1.to dare
- 2.daring
- 3.(polite) may I venture
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Wiktionary
- 1.bold; brave; daring
- 2.to dare (to); to venture (to)
- 3.to be sure; to be certain; to bet; to presume
- 4.may I venture
- 5.can it be possible that; how
- 6.perhaps
- 7.Interrogative adverb, placed before the verb to create a yes-no question.
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Etymology
ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): a hand (又) using a capturing tool (𰅱) to hunt a wild boar (豕). Later, 𰅱 was omitted and a redundant component 口 or 甘 was added (Chen Jian, 2020; Xie Mingwen, 2020). The components eventually corrupted into the modern form. Compare Burmese ဝံ့ (wam., “to dare”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-wam (“to dare”), which Schuessler reconstructs as *k-wam to account for the initial velar in the Chinese form.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
你怎么敢那么说。
How dare you say that!
我敢说他是对的。
I dare say he is right.
你怎么敢这样说话？
How dare you speak like that!
您怎么敢这样说话？
How dare you speak like that!
你怎么敢这样跟我说话！
How dare you speak to me like that!
天使畏懼處, 愚人敢闖入。
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Derived terms
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