苦口

苦
口
lit. bitter taste (cf good medicine tastes bitter 良藥苦口|良药苦口) / fig. earnestly (of warning, advice)

Characters and words in 苦口

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.
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 苦口

苦
口
婆
心
earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently
良
良
药
藥
苦
苦
口
口
good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow

Sentences with 苦口

苦口 currently does not appear in any sentence.