良藥苦口
liáng​yào​kǔ​kǒu

good medicine tastes bitter

  • created reference approved 良药苦口/良藥苦口 → 忠言逆耳 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    良药苦口 / 良藥苦口 liáng​yào​kǔ​kǒu

    忠言逆耳 zhōng​yán​nì'ěr

    synonym

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 良药苦口/良藥苦口 · liáng​yào​kǔ​kǒu · good medicine tastes bitter — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    良药苦口 / 良藥苦口

    liáng​yào​kǔ​kǒu

    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

    良药 (literal) → 良药/良藥 · liáng​yào · good medicine 苦口 (literal) → 苦口 · kǔ​kǒu · bitter to the taste

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense