啞巴吃黃連

1. • no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)
2. • (often precedes 有苦说不出 yǒukǔshuōbuchū)

Character by character

• 啞(yǎ)mute
• 巴(ba)Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty
• 吃(chī)eat
• 黃(huáng)surname Huang or Hwang
• 連(lián)surname Lian