Read Edit View history 良药苦口 liángyàokǔkǒu good medicine tastes bitter Origin Definitions Defs 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)