variant of 啞巴吃黃連|哑巴吃黄连[ya3 ba5 chi1 huang2 lian2]
trad. 啞巴吃黃蓮
Also written 啞巴吃黃蓮【yǎ ba chī huáng lián】
Characters in this word
5哑
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
(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
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
黄
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surname Huang or Hwang
- Pinyin
- Huáng
- Traditional
- 黃
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 4900 of 2500
莲
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lotus
- Pinyin
- lián
- Traditional
- 蓮
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 32932 of 2500