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吃哑巴亏

chī yǎ ba kuī

4-character word Traditional 吃啞巴虧

What 吃哑巴亏 means

1. to be forced to suffer in silence
2. unable to speak of one's bitter suffering

The characters in 吃哑巴亏

• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
• 哑yǎmute; dumb; incapable of speech; (of a voice) hoarse; husky…
• 巴bāto long for; to wish; to cling to
• 亏kuīto lose (money); to have a deficit; to be deficient; to treat unfairly

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