吃熊心豹子胆

to eat bear heart and leopard gall (idiom) / to pluck up some courage

to eat / to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate / to destroy / to absorb / to suffer / to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [ji2])

variant of 吃[chi1]

surname Xiong

bear / (coll.) to scold / to rebuke / (coll.) weak / incapable

heart / mind / intention / center / core / CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]

leopard / panther

leopard / CL:頭|头[tou2]

son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat / Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / sub-

(noun suffix)

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