HSK 6 · Verbs

不敢当 bùgǎndāng “I don’t deserve such praise” in Chinese

Traditional 不敢當

What 不敢当 means

  1. I don’t deserve such praise
  2. you flatter me
  3. lit. I dare not (accept the honour)
  4. fig. I don’t deserve your praise

How to say 不敢当

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale不bù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale敢gǎn3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale当dāng1st tone, high and level

不敢当 in a sentence

  1. 不敢当。

    Bùgǎndāng.

    You flatter me – I don’t deserve it.

    Sentence #13111443 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 不敢当 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 不 (bù) drawn as one shape
不bùno; not so

不 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidPicture a bar 一 across the top that nothing below can get past: not, no.

The character 敢 (gǎn) drawn as one shape
敢gǎnto dare

敢 is a single shape of 11 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 当 (dāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
当dāngdong
  • ⺌small form of 小 · xiǎo
  • 彐snout · jì

How to write 不敢当

不 4 strokes · 敢 11 strokes · 当 6 strokes

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不敢当 (bùgǎndāng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 不敢当 (bùgǎndāng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 不敢当

Words with 不

不bù · no不要bùyào · don’t!不客气bú kèqi · you’re welcome对不起duìbuqǐ · sorry不错bùcuò · not bad不好意思bùhǎoyìsi · to feel embarrassed不但búdàn · not only不同bùtóng · different不少bùshǎo · quite a few不见bújiàn · to be missing

Words with 敢

敢gǎn · to dare勇敢yǒnggǎn · brave

Words with 当

当然dāngrán · of course当dāng · to act as当时dāngshí · then当地dāngdì · local当心dāngxīn · to be careful上当shàngdàng · to be fooled相当xiāngdāng · equivalent to当场dāngchǎng · on the spot当初dāngchū · originally当代dāngdài · contemporary

More words: Thinking & Talking

贬低biǎndī · to belittle辩解biànjiě · to justify辨认biànrèn · to identify表态biǎotài · to state one’s position采纳cǎinà · to adopt参谋cānmóu · adviser参照cānzhào · to refer to倡导chàngdǎo · to advocate

FAQs

不敢当 (bùgǎndāng) means “I don’t deserve such praise” or “you flatter me”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bùgǎndāng: bù with a 4th tone, then gǎn with a 3rd tone, then dāng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 不敢当 is written 不敢當. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bugandang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 不敢当 from the suggestions. Typing bugandang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
不敢当 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.