哑巴吃黄连
Traditional: 啞巴吃黃連Dictionary entry
no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)
What does 哑巴吃黄连 mean?
哑巴吃黄连 (yǎ ba chī huáng lián) has the following dictionary meaning.
1no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)
2also written 啞巴吃黃蓮|哑巴吃黄莲
3(often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出[you3 ku3 shuo1 bu5 chu1])
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哑yā(onom.) sound of cawing · sound of infant learning to talk巴BāBa, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan) · the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality吃chīto eat; to consume · to eat at (a cafeteria etc)黄Huángsurname Huang or Hwang连Liánsurname Lian
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