是药三分毒 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 是藥三分毒 shìyàosānfēndú ㄕˋ ㄧㄠˋ ㄙㄢ ㄈㄣ ㄉㄨˊ every medicine has its side effect Character by character 是(shì)be 药(yào)leaf of the iris 三(sān)surname San 分(fēn)divide 毒(dú)poison A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0