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敢
Mandarin · pinyin gǎn
Meanings
- to dare
- daring
- (polite) may I venture
Characters in this entry
- 敢
- gǎn · to dare, venture; bold, brave
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Mandarin tones
3 · gan3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
gam2
Cantonese word readings for 敢. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- bold; brave; daring
- to dare (to); to venture (to)
- to be sure; to be certain; to bet; to presume
- (polite) may I venture
- (literary or Hokkien, Teochew, Taiwanese Hakka, rhetorical question) can it be possible that; how
- (archaic or Xiamen, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou Hokkien) perhaps
- (Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka) Interrogative adverb, placed before the verb to create a yes-no question.
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