gall bladder / courage / guts / gall / inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos)

= + : Don Quixote (d) suffers from a huge moon-shaped (月) gall stone (胆), so inside of the anthill (an3) he drinks medicine from a big mug (旦). His moon gall stone is so big, it has gall stones on its own and it is drinking medicine from a mug as well.

胆 character breakdown

dawn / morning / daybreak / day / dan, female roles in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: A big mug, since many people start the day with a mug of coffee.

Don Quixote (d) meets the sun (日) early in the morning (旦) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). Don Quixote is full of energy and can't wait to start into a new adventure, but since the sun is a morning grouch who only just started drinking her mug of coffee (mnemonic symbol for 旦) she cannot stand it and beats him over the head with a flute (一) to calm him a bit down.
moon / month / monthly / CL:個|个[ge4],輪|轮[lun2]

= + : Yu the Great (yu) is modelling a moon (月) in the elevator's bathroom (e4). He uses a stapler (⺆) to staple a lot of capacitors (二) together to form a moon shape, while the real moon is sitting for him.

Characters with 胆 as component

胆 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 胆

brazen / audacious / outrageous / bold / daring / fearless
(saying) to be very scared and on edge
to get one’s courage up / to embolden
lit. heart alarmed, trembling in fear (idiom); prostrate with fear / scared witless
see 心驚膽戰|心惊胆战[xin1 jing1 dan3 zhan4]
to be scared out of one's wits / to scare stiff
to proceed with sth even though scared / to put on a brave face
solitary hero / maverick
to be scared out of one's wits (idiom)
lit. to open one's liver and drip gall (idiom); wholehearted loyalty
to proceed with sth even though scared; to put on a brave face
devoid of fear (idiom) / intrepid
acetylcholine ACh (amine related to vitamin B complex)
to pour out one's heart (idiom)
to be completely honest and sincere (idiom)
to eat bear heart and leopard gall (idiom) / to pluck up some courage
panic-stricken / scared out of one's wits

Sentences with 胆

ya̅o
hóu
shén
me
lái
lì
 
 
dǎn
gǎn
rú
cǐ
fàng
sì