良药苦口 良藥苦口
良药苦口良藥苦口 in English
- good medicine tastes bitter (idiom) / fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
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How it used to be written
良
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 19 forms
药
These are the forms of 藥, the traditional character: 药 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 12 forms
苦
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
口
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 9 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).