吃哑巴亏 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 吃啞巴虧 chīyǎbakuī ㄔ ㄧㄚˇ ˙ㄅㄚ ㄎㄨㄟ to be forced to suffer in silence unable to speak of one's bitter suffering Character by character 吃(chī)eat 哑(yǎ)mute 巴(ba)Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty 亏(kuī)lose A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0