to be forced to suffer in silence; unable to speak of one's bitter suffering
trad. 吃啞巴虧
Also written 吃啞巴虧【chī yǎ ba kuī】
Characters in this word
4吃
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to eat; to consume, to eat at (a cafeteria etc), to eradicate; to destroy, to absorb, to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- Pinyin
- chī
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 143 of 2500
哑
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(onom.) sound of cawing, sound of infant learning to talk, variant of 呀[ya1]
- Pinyin
- yā
- Traditional
- 啞
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 20803 of 2500
巴
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Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan), the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality, surname Ba, (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Ba1 le4 si1 tan3] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Ba1 ji1 si1 tan3] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Ba1 xi1] (Brazil)
- Pinyin
- Bā
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 3789 of 2500
亏
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to lose (money); to have a deficit, to be deficient, to treat unfairly, luckily; fortunately; thanks to, (used to introduce an ironic remark about sb who has fallen short of expectations)
- Pinyin
- kuī
- Traditional
- 虧
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 15724 of 2500