dàn

dread

fear; dislike

heart (忄) + sound (单) = a heart that dreads and shrinks away

The heart radical grounds the meaning in emotion — specifically an inner shrinking or dread. 单 contributes the sound dàn and does not add to the meaning here.

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SinglePhonetic
HeartSemantic

他做事从不麻烦,总是很认真。

tā zuò shì cóng bù dàn máfan,zǒng shì hěn rènzhēn。

he never dreads trouble when doing things, and is always very serious.

她不困难,一个人完成了这项任务。

tā bù dàn kùnnan,yī gè rén wánchéng le zhè xiàng rènwu。

she did not fear difficulty and completed this task on her own.

Words with 惮

不惮

bù dàn

(literary) unafraid

忌惮

jì dàn

to be afraid of the consequences

肆无忌惮

sì wú jì dàn

absolutely unrestrained

More characters with 忄