肝胆相照 — Chinese idiom
肝胆相照
gān dǎn xiāng zhào
Traditional: 肝膽相照
Meaning
- to treat one another with absolute sincerity ; to show total devotion
Character by character
- 肝gānliver
- 胆dǎngallbladder; gall, guts, courage
- 相xiāngmutual, reciprocal; equal; each other
- 照zhàoto shine, to reflect, to illuminate
Idioms sharing a character
- 侠肝义胆 xiá gān yì dǎn
- 大动肝火 dà dòng gān huǒ
- 忠肝义胆 zhōng gān yì dǎn
- 披肝沥胆 pī gān lì dǎn
- 揪心扒肝 jiū xīn bā gān
- 肝肠寸断 gān cháng cùn duàn
- 一身是胆 yī shēn shì dǎn
- 倾心吐胆 qīng xīn tǔ dǎn
- 心胆俱裂 xīn dǎn jù liè
- 心惊胆战 xīn jīng dǎn zhàn
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