酸甜苦辣 Save Sign in to save words On the HSK 5 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C1. suāntiánkǔlà ㄙㄨㄢ ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄎㄨˇ ㄌㄚˋ sour, sweet, bitter and spicy (idiom) lit. all kinds of flavors the joys and sorrows of life fig. Character by character 酸(suān)sour 甜(tián)sweet 苦(kǔ)bitter 辣(là)hot A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT