良药苦口
Traditional form:
良藥苦口
Pinyin (reading):
liángyàokǔkǒu
Definitions:
- good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow
Characters:
- 良 - good, virtuous, respectable
- 药 - drugs, medicine; the leaf of the Dahurian angelica plant
- 苦 - bitter; hardship, suffering
- 口 - mouth; entrance, gate, opening
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