Chinese symbol for “reckless”
胆大包天
dǎn dà bāo tiān
Traditional: 膽大包天
reckless; extremely daring
The closest CC-CEDICT match for reckless is 胆大包天 (dǎn dà bāo tiān), defined as: reckless; extremely daring.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “reckless”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 轻 (輕) | qīng | light; easy |
| 鲁莽 (魯莽) | lǔ mǎng | hot-headed; impulsive; reckless |
| 胡 | hú | non-Han people, esp. from central Asia; reckless |
| 混 | hùn | to mix; to mingle |
| 冒 | mào | to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 胆大包天.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大胆 (大膽) | dà dǎn | brazen; audacious |
| 胆子 (膽子) | dǎn zi | courage; nerve |
| 胆小 (膽小) | dǎn xiǎo | cowardice; timid |
| 胆敢 (膽敢) | dǎn gǎn | to dare (negative connotation); to have the audacity to (do sth) |
| 胆量 (膽量) | dǎn liàng | courage; boldness |
| 胆固醇 (膽固醇) | dǎn gù chún | cholesterol |
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone; influential family |
| 包括 | bāo kuò | to comprise; to include |
| 今天 | jīn tiān | today; the present time; now |
See also: Japanese symbol for “reckless”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.