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Kanji Detail for 膽 - "gallbladder, courage, heart"
膽
- Meaning
膽 means "gallbladder, courage, heart."
Gallbladder - The bile-producing organ.
Courage - Spirit; bravery.
Heart - The mind.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
gall bladder; bravery; courage
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
gall bladder; bravery, courage
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
gall bladder; courage; guts; gall; inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos)
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
gallbladder; gall, guts, courage
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
One of the organs in the body. Pouch-shaped. Near the right lobe of the liver. Stores bile secreted by the liver. To digest the fat content of food. | Old explanations say that the spirit of courage comes from the gallbladder. Such as being fearless is called 有膽 (having guts). Being righteous is called 肝膽 (liver and gall). Actually it is the function of hot blood. Also innermost thoughts. Such as saying 披肝瀝膽 (expose the liver and drain the gall; utterly sincere). | A metaphor for the inside of objects. Such as the reed of a musical instrument, the strainer of a teapot. Colloquially all called 膽 (bladder).
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