good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow
trad. 良藥苦口
Also written 良藥苦口【liáng yào kǔ kǒu】
Characters in this word
4良
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good, very, very much
- Pinyin
- liáng
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 34938 of 2500
药
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leaf of the iris, variant of 藥|药[yao4]
- Pinyin
- yào
- Traditional
- 葯
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 1417 of 2500
苦
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bitter, hardship, pain, to suffer, to bring suffering to, painstakingly
- Pinyin
- kǔ
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 5535 of 2500
口
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mouth, classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc), classifier for bites or mouthfuls
- Pinyin
- kǒu
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 4127 of 2500