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to be forced to suffer in silence (idiom); unable to speak of one's bitter suffering; sometimes written 啞子吃黃連,有苦說不出|哑子吃黄连,有苦说不出
trad. 啞巴吃黃連,有苦說不出
Also written 啞巴吃黃連,有苦說不出【yǎ ba chī huáng lián , yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū】
Characters in this word 10 哑
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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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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 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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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 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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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 surname Huang or Hwang
Pinyin Huáng
Traditional 黃
Strokes 11
Frequency 4900 of 2500 连
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 surname Lian
Pinyin Lián
Traditional 連
Strokes 7
Frequency 563 of 2500 有
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 to have; there is, (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)
Pinyin yǒu
Strokes 6
Frequency 13 of 2500 苦
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 bitter, hardship, pain, to suffer, to bring suffering to, painstakingly
Pinyin kǔ
Strokes 8
Frequency 5535 of 2500 说
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 to persuade
Pinyin shuì
Traditional 說
Strokes 9
Frequency 19 of 2500 不
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
Pinyin bù
Strokes 4
Frequency 9 of 2500 出
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 to go out; to come out, to arise; to occur, to produce; to yield, to go beyond; to exceed, (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result), classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
Pinyin chū
Strokes 5
Frequency 328 of 2500