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Definition(s) for: 吃哑巴亏

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
吃哑巴亏 chī yǎ ba kuī - to be forced to suffer in silence
- unable to speak of one's bitter suffering

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 87,311 98,949 81,803

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
吃 chī- to eat; to consume
- to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
- to eradicate; to destroy
- to absorb
- to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
吃 chī- variant of 吃[chi1]
哑 yā- (onom.) sound of cawing
- sound of infant learning to talk
- variant of 呀[ya1]
哑 yǎ- mute; dumb; incapable of speech
- (of a voice) hoarse; husky
- (bound form) (of a bullet, bomb etc) dud
巴 bā- Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan)
- the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality
- surname Ba
- abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Ba1le4si1tan3] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Ba1ji1si1tan3] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Ba1xi] (Brazil)
巴 bā- to long for
- to wish
- to cling to
- to stick to
- sth that sticks
- close to
- next to
- spread open
- informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4]
- bar (unit of pressure)
- nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail
亏 kuī- to lose (money); to have a deficit
- to be deficient
- to treat unfairly
- luckily; fortunately; thanks to
- (used to introduce an ironic remark about sb who has fallen short of expectations)

Other Words Containing 吃哑巴亏

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
吃哑巴亏 - - 87,311 98,949 81,803