忆苦思甜 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 憶苦思甜 yìkǔsītián ㄧˋ ㄎㄨˇ ㄙ ㄊㄧㄢˊ to view one's past as miserable and one's present as happy (idiom) Character by character 忆(yì)recollect 苦(kǔ)bitter 思(sī)think 甜(tián)sweet A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0