哑巴吃黄连 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 啞巴吃黃連 yǎbachīhuánglián ㄧㄚˇ ˙ㄅㄚ ㄔ ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄌㄧㄢˊ no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom) (often precedes 有苦说不出 yǒukǔshuōbuchū) Character by character 哑(yǎ)mute 巴(ba)Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty 吃(chī)eat 黄(huáng)surname Huang or Hwang 连(lián)surname Lian A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0