甘之如饴 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 甘之如飴 gānzhīrúyí ㄍㄢ ㄓ ㄖㄨˊ ㄧˊ lit. as sweet as syrup (idiom, from Book of Songs) to endure hardship gladly a glutton for punishment Character by character 甘(gān)surname Gan 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 如(rú)as 饴(yí)maltose syrup A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0