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Definition(s) for: 哑巴吃黄连

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
哑巴吃黄连 yǎ ba chī huáng lián - no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)
- also written 啞巴吃黃蓮|哑巴吃黄莲
- (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出[you3 ku3 shuo1 bu5 chu1])

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HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 80,018 67,422

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
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
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]
黄 huáng- surname Huang or Hwang
黄 huáng- yellow
- pornographic
- to fall through
连 lián- surname Lian
连 lián- to link
- to join
- to connect
- continuously
- in succession
- including
- (used with 也[ye3], 都[dou1] etc) even
- company (military)

Other Words Containing 哑巴吃黄连

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo