良药苦口 liángyàokǔkǒu good medicine tastes bitter Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 良药苦口 良藥苦口 liángyàokǔkǒu good medicine tastes bitter effective medicine is often hard to swallow; used as a metaphor to mean that honest advice or frank criticism can be unpleasant to hear but is ultimately beneficial Frequency Written text 0.081 per million Cross-References Synonym 忠言逆耳 zhōngyánnì'ěr药石之言 yàoshízhīyán Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
良药苦口 良藥苦口 liángyàokǔkǒu good medicine tastes bitter effective medicine is often hard to swallow; used as a metaphor to mean that honest advice or frank criticism can be unpleasant to hear but is ultimately beneficial Frequency Written text 0.081 per million Cross-References Synonym 忠言逆耳 zhōngyánnì'ěr药石之言 yàoshízhīyán Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
