酸甜苦辣

Chinese

		sour and sweet	bitter; intensely; miserable bitter; intensely; miserable; painful	hot (spicy); pungent
trad. (酸甜苦辣)		酸甜	苦	辣
simp. #(酸甜苦辣)		酸甜	苦	辣

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): suāntiánkǔlà

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄢ ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄎㄨˇ ㄌㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syun¹ tim⁴ fu² laat⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: suāntiánkǔlà
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄢ ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄎㄨˇ ㄌㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suantiánkǔlà
    • Wade–Giles: suan¹-tʻien²-kʻu³-la⁴
    • Yale: swān-tyán-kǔ-là
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suantyankuulah
    • Palladius: суаньтянькула (suanʹtjanʹkula)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯än⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn³⁵ kʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ lä⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: syun¹ tim⁴ fu² laat⁶
    • Yale: syūn tìhm fú laaht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syn¹ tim⁴ fu² laat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xun¹ tim⁴ fu² lad⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syːn⁵⁵ tʰiːm²¹ fuː³⁵ laːt̚²/

Idiom

酸甜苦辣

1. sour, sweet, bitter and spicy; all kinds of flavours
2. (figurative) the joys and sorrows of life; the sweets and bitters of life

Synonyms

• 甜酸苦辣 (tiánsuānkǔlà)
• 酸甜苦辣鹹／酸甜苦辣咸 (suāntiánkǔlàxián)