药材店里的抹台布,甜酸苦辣样样都得沾点儿 藥材店里的抹檯布,甜酸苦辣樣樣都得沾點兒 藥材店里的抹枱布,甜酸苦辣樣樣都得沾點兒

the counter cloth in a herbal medicine shop: has to touch sweet, sour, bitter and spicy alike

Saying俗语俗語

Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now

Meaning
Life brings every kind of experience, happy and painful, and a person must go through some of each.
Simplified
药材店里的抹台布,甜酸苦辣样样都得沾点儿
Traditional (Taiwan)
藥材店里的抹檯布,甜酸苦辣樣樣都得沾點兒
Traditional (Hong Kong)
藥材店里的抹枱布,甜酸苦辣樣樣都得沾點兒
Pinyin
yàocái diàn lǐ de mǒ táibù,tiánsuānkǔlà yàngyàng dōu de zhān diǎnr
Bopomofo
ㄧㄠˋ ㄘㄞˊ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄌㄧˇ ˙ㄉㄜ ㄇㄛˇ ㄊㄞˊ ㄅㄨˋ,ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄙㄨㄢ ㄎㄨˇ ㄌㄚˋ ㄧㄤˋ ㄧㄤˋ ㄉㄡ ˙ㄉㄜ ㄓㄢ ㄉㄧㄢˇㄦ

Written with HSK 7-9 vocabulary, at CEFR level C1.

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