骨鯁之臣 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 骨鲠之臣 gǔgěngzhīchén ㄍㄨˇ ㄍㄥˇ ㄓ ㄔㄣˊ lit. fish bone of a minister (idiom) fig. person one can rely on for candid criticism Character by character 骨(gǔ)bone 鯁(gěng)choke on a piece of food 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 臣(chén)surname Chen A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0