良药苦口 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 良藥苦口 liángyàokǔkǒu ㄌㄧㄤˊ ㄧㄠˋ ㄎㄨˇ ㄎㄡˇ good medicine tastes bitter (idiom) fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow Character by character 良(liáng)good 药(yào)leaf of the iris 苦(kǔ)bitter 口(kǒu)mouth A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0