三折肱为良医 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 三折肱為良醫 sānzhégōngwéiliángyī ㄙㄢ ㄓㄜˊ ㄍㄨㄥ ㄨㄟˊ ㄌㄧㄤˊ ㄧ break one's arm three times to become a good doctor (idiom) lit. experience is a good teacher fig. Character by character 三(sān)surname San 折(zhé)break 肱(gōng)upper arm 为(wéi)as (in the capacity of) 良(liáng)good 医(yī)medical A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0