啞巴吃黃蓮

no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom) / also written 啞巴吃黃連|哑巴吃黄连 / (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出[you3 ku3 shuo1 bu5 chu1])

(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

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]

yellow / pornographic / to fall through

lotus