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哑巴吃黄连

yǎ ba chī huáng lián

5-character word Traditional 啞巴吃黃連

What 哑巴吃黄连 means

1. no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)
2. also written 哑巴吃黄莲
3. (often precedes {有苦说不出|yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū})

The characters in 哑巴吃黄连

• 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
• 连liánto link; to join; to connect

Words starting with 哑巴吃黄连

• 哑巴吃黄连，有苦说不出yǎ ba chī huáng lián , yǒu kǔ shuō bu chūto be forced to suffer in silence (idiom); unable to speak of one's bitter suffering…

Sounds the same

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

• 哑巴吃黄莲variant of 哑巴吃黄连