長痛不如短痛 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 长痛不如短痛 chángtòngbùrúduǎntòng ㄔㄤˊ ㄊㄨㄥˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄨˊ ㄉㄨㄢˇ ㄊㄨㄥˋ better to just get the pain over with, rather than prolong the agony Character by character 長(cháng)long 痛(tòng)ache 不(bù)no 如(rú)as 短(duǎn)short 痛(tòng)ache A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0