良藥苦口

良
良
药
藥
苦
苦
口
口
good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow

Characters and words in 良藥苦口

良
liáng = li + ang2
good / very / very much
良 = 丶 + 艮 : Mnemonic symbol: A "thank you very much" card for being so good.

Everyday, Li Qingzhao (li) has been picking up the chewing gums (艮) from the ground of the anglepod's kitchen (ang2) with petal leaves (丶). One day, finally one guest approaches her and gives her a "thank you very much" card for being so good (良).
良
良
药
藥
good medicine / panacea / fig. a good solution / a good remedy (e.g. to a social problem)
药
藥
yào = y + ao4
medicine / drug / substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting) / CL:種|种[zhong3],服[fu4],味[wei4] / to poison
药 = 艹 + 约 : Maud Younger is on a date in the aorta, but she has to pass gas all the time. In the bathroom she desperately eats a sheet of artificial lawn, thinking that it should be the right medicine for her.
苦
kǔ = ku + Ø3
bitter / hardship / pain / to suffer / to bring suffering to / painstakingly
苦 = 艹 + 古 : Karl Koala decided to repent for his sins and retreated into a cloister inside the space station. There he leads a very simple life full of hardship, e.g. he gave up on eucalyptus and just eats very bitter artificial lawn.
苦
口
lit. bitter taste (cf good medicine tastes bitter 良藥苦口|良药苦口) / fig. earnestly (of warning, advice)
口
kǒu = k + ou3
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

Words with 良藥苦口

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Sentences with 良藥苦口

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