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01-25-2008, 01:38 PM

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--brave, strong
you're right 剛 also means "brave"
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you're right 剛 also means "brave"
in Japan there is the word 剛勇 , it means valiance.
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01-26-2008, 09:36 PM

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I've never known that to mean brave, rather: strong, manly, hard and such words.

brave as i use it is 勇
I'm not wrong. We're using two different senses of the word brave. If you look up "Garrett", the word it gives with brave is "hardy". The Kanji I picked seemed to fit the sense of "brave and hardy" than did the one you gave.

Not that I'm very skilled with kanji--saiga-jp.com is my god, ftm.


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