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 / boldness / guts
cowardice / timid
timidity / timid / cowardly
choline (amine related to vitamin B complex)
to tremble with fear (idiom) / scared witless
to fear / to be terrified
lit. to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Gou Jian of Yue 勾踐|勾践[Gou1 Jian4]), in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom) / fig. to maintain one's resolve for revenge
lit. to lie on firewood and taste gall (idiom); fig. suffering patiently, but firmly resolved on revenge
lit. red-bellied devotion (idiom); wholehearted loyalty / to serve sb with body and soul
courageous / bold
boldness in pursuing one's sexual urges
outrageously bold in one's lust / debauched (idiom)
snake gall (used in TCM)
frightening / frightened (idiom)

Sentences with 胆

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