苦尽甘来 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 苦盡甘來 kǔjìngānlái ㄎㄨˇ ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄍㄢ ㄌㄞˊ bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom) the hard times are over, the good times just beginning Character by character 苦(kǔ)bitter 尽(jìn)use up 甘(gān)surname Gan 来(lái)come A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0