哑巴吃黄莲
Traditional form:
啞巴吃黃蓮
Pinyin (reading):
yǎbachīhuánglián
Definitions:
- no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)
- also written 啞巴吃黃連／哑巴吃黄连
- (often precedes 有苦說不出／有苦说不出 (yǒukǔshuōbuchū))
Characters:
- 哑 - dumb, mute, hoarse
- 巴 - to desire, to wish for
- 吃 - to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
- 黄 - yellow; surname
- 莲 - lotus, water lily; paradise
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