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良药苦口

liáng yào kǔ kǒu

4-character word Traditional 良藥苦口

What 良药苦口 means

1. good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow

The characters in 良药苦口

• 良liánggood; very; very much
• 药yàoleaf of the iris; variant of 药
• 苦kǔbitter; hardship; pain
• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…

Example sentences

• 良药苦口。
  Liángyàokǔkǒu.
  Good medicine is bitter to the mouth.

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