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哑巴吃黄莲

yǎ ba chī huáng lián

5-character word Traditional 啞巴吃黃蓮

What 哑巴吃黄莲 means

1. variant of {哑巴吃黄连|yǎ ba chī huáng lián}

The characters in 哑巴吃黄莲

• 哑yǎmute; dumb; incapable of speech; (of a voice) hoarse; husky…
• 巴bāto long for; to wish; to cling to
• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
• 黄huángyellow; pornographic; to fall through
• 莲liánlotus

Sounds the same

Read yǎ ba chī huáng lián, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 哑巴吃黄连no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom); also written 哑巴吃黄莲; (often precedes 有苦说不出

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