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

courage / nerve / guts
daring / bold / audacious
openly and without fear / brazenly
(courteous) to be so bold as to
hear the wind and lose gall (idiom); terror-stricken at the news
extremely daring (idiom) / foolhardy
individually courageous
bold and courageous hero (idiom)
to be scared stiff
to be scared out of one's wits
to treat one another with absolute sincerity (idiom); to show total devotion
see 膽子|胆子[dan3 zi5]
courage / bravery
bear gall (used in TCM)
to be perverse and suggestive towards the opposite sex, but shrinking back when provoked to act on it / to have perverted thoughts but no guts to actually do it / to be all talk and no action

Sentences with 胆

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