吃啞巴虧

to be forced to suffer in silence / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering

to eat / to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate / to destroy / to absorb / to suffer / to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [ji2])

variant of 吃[chi1]

(onom.) sound of cawing / sound of infant learning to talk / variant of 呀[ya1]

dumb / mute / hoarse / husky / unexploded (of artillery shell etc)

mute; dumb; incapable of speech / (of a voice) hoarse; husky / (of a bullet, bomb etc) dud

mute / muted / a dumb person / to be dumb

a mute / mute; silent

Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan) / abbr. for east Sichuan or Chongqing / surname Ba / abbr. for Palestine or Palestinian / abbr. for Pakistan

to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4] / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail

pent-up unspoken grievances / suffering not willingly or possibly spoken of

deficiency / deficit / luckily / it's lucky that... / (often ironically) fancy that...