良藥苦口 Save Create a free account to save words Simplified: 良药苦口 liángyàokǔkǒu ㄌㄧㄤˊ ㄧㄠˋ ㄎㄨˇ ㄎㄡˇ 男 女 good medicine tastes bitter (idiom) fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow Character by character 良(liáng)good 藥(yào)medicine 苦(kǔ)bitter 口(kǒu)mouth Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0