忠言

zhōngyán

noun #51,084

Meanings

HSK 3

朋友的忠言，你一定要听进去。

Péngyou de zhōngyán, nǐ yídìng yào tīng jìnqu.

You must take your friend’s honest advice to heart.

HSK 7-9

历史上，许多君王听不进忠言，最终亡了国。

Lìshǐ shàng, xǔduō jūnwáng tīngbujìn zhōngyán, zuìzhōng wáng le guó.

In history, many rulers would not listen to honest advice and in the end lost their states.

usage

Almost always in 忠言逆耳 ‘honest advice grates on the ear’, usually paired with 良药苦口利于病 ‘good medicine tastes bitter but cures illness’.

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