Word information
Simplified酸甜苦辣
Traditional酸甜苦辣
Pinyinsuān-tián-kǔ-là
Part of speechGeneral
HSK 3.05
HSK 2.0Not listed
Chinese word dictionary
酸甜苦辣
suān-tián-kǔ-là · lit. sour, sweet, bitter and spicy (idiom); fig. all kinds of flavors; the joys and sorrows of life
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Words with the same characters
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甜tián
sweet
苦kǔbitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly
辣làhot (spicy); pungent; (of chili pepper, raw onions etc) to sting; to burn; old variant of 辣[la4]
酸suānsour; tart; sick at heart; grieved; sore; aching; pedantic; impractical; to make sarcastic remarks about sb; an acid
酸奶suānnǎiyogurt
辛苦xīnkǔexhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s)