岂敢 (豈敢)
qǐ gǎn
Pinyin

Definition

岂敢 (豈敢)
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qǐ gǎn
  1. how could one dare?
  2. I don't deserve such praise

Character Decomposition

Related Words (10)

敢
gǎn
  1. 1 to dare
  2. 2 daring
  3. 3 (polite) may I venture
勇敢
yǒng gǎn
  1. 1 brave
  2. 2 courageous
敢情
gǎn qing
  1. 1 actually
  2. 2 as it turns out
  3. 3 indeed
  4. 4 of course
敢于
gǎn yú
  1. 1 to have the courage to do sth
  2. 2 to dare to
  3. 3 bold in
敢死队
gǎn sǐ duì
  1. 1 suicide squad
  2. 2 kamikaze unit

Idioms (6)

不敢自专
bù gǎn zì zhuān
  1. 1 not daring to act for oneself (idiom)
不敢苟同
bù gǎn gǒu tóng
  1. 1 to beg to differ (idiom)
敢不从命
gǎn bù cóng mìng
  1. 1 to not dare to disobey an order (idiom)
敢作敢为
gǎn zuò gǎn wéi
  1. 1 to stop at nothing (idiom)
  2. 2 to dare to do anything
敢怒而不敢言
gǎn nù ér bù gǎn yán
  1. 1 angry, but not daring to speak out (idiom); obliged to remain silent about one's resentment
  2. 2 unable to voice objections

Sample Sentences

岂敢岂敢，只是最近读认知语言学相关的文献，觉得很有趣罢了，就像你说的，古典分类理论描述的典型的鸟是以知更鸟为原型。
qǐgǎn qǐgǎn ，zhǐshì zuìjìn dú rènzhī xiāngguān de wénxiàn ，juéde hěn yǒuqù bàle ，jiù xiàng nǐshuōde ，gǔdiǎn fēnlèi lǐlùn miáoshù de diǎnxíng de niǎo shì yǐ zhīgèngniǎo wèi yuánxíng 。
I wouldn't dare, it's just that recently I've been reading some cognitive linguistics literature and I just thought it was interesting is all. Like you said, the model bird in classical taxonomic theory takes the robin as its prototype.
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