gǎn

  1. gǎn adjective bold; brave
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '敢')
  2. gǎn auxiliary verb to dare to
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
    Notes: 敢 is used as a modal auxiliary verb in this sense in both modern and Literary Chinese (Pulleyblank 1995, p. 122; Sun 2006, loc. 1723).

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敢作敢为敢怒而不敢言不敢恭维未敢苟同敢于敢做敢当舍得一身剐,敢把皇帝拉下马不敢石敢当敢死队愧不敢当敢为人先岂敢敢不从命竟敢不敢高攀不敢苟同敢打敢冲敢为胆敢安敢勇敢不敢越雷池一步不敢当辄敢敢作敢当果敢不敢自专不敢违其政敢情

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  • Scroll 12 Hongming Ji (Collection on the Propagation and Clarification of Buddhism) 弘明集 — count: 13 , has English translation
  • Scroll 5 Record of the Teaching and Practices of Siming (Siming Zunzhe Jiao Xing Lu) 四明尊者教行錄 — count: 12
  • Scroll 3 Shi Shi Ji Gu Lue 釋氏稽古略 — count: 11
  • Scroll 22 Supplement to the Biographies of Eminent Monks 續高僧傳 — count: 10
  • Scroll 1 Quotations from Abbot Mi An 密菴和尚語錄 — count: 10
  • Scroll 9 Tan Jin Wenji 鐔津文集 — count: 10
  • Scroll 1 Hong Zhi Chan Shi Guang Lu 宏智禪師廣錄 — count: 10
  • Scroll 32 Supplement to Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 續傳燈錄 — count: 10
  • Scroll 2 Jambhalajalendrayathālabdhakalpasūtra (Fo Shuo Baozang Shen Da Ming Man Na Luo Yi Gui Jing) 佛說寶藏神大明曼拏羅儀軌經 — count: 9
  • Scroll 6 Beishan Record 北山錄 — count: 9

Collocations

  • 敢陈 (敢陳) 聽乃敢陳 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 35 — count: 13
  • 未敢 (未敢) 未敢通之 — Nirvāṇa Sūtra 佛般泥洹經, Scroll 2 — count: 8
  • 敢违 (敢違) 不復敢違 — Sujata Sutra 佛說玉耶女經, Scroll 1 — count: 6
  • 敢能 (敢能) 敢能如是索我相鬪 — Dazhengju Wang Jing (Pāyāsisuttanta) 大正句王經, Scroll 2 — count: 5
  • 敢近 (敢近) 一切鳥獸無敢近者 — Jātaka stories of the Bodhisattva (Pusa Benyuan Jing) 菩薩本緣經, Scroll 3 — count: 4
  • 敢问 (敢問) 敢問大聖智 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 3 — count: 4
  • 不复敢 (不復敢) 終不復敢重詣如來命敵論議 — Saṃyuktāgama 雜阿含經, Scroll 5 — count: 4
  • 敢入 (敢入) 此婢生物敢入中坐 — Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含經, Scroll 26 — count: 3
  • 敢自陈 (敢自陳) 乃敢自陳 — Zhuanji Bai Yuan Jing (Avadānaśataka) 撰集百緣經, Scroll 10 — count: 3
  • 敢住 (敢住) 無敢住者 — Zhuanji Bai Yuan Jing (Avadānaśataka) 撰集百緣經, Scroll 10 — count: 3