黄柏汁儿里泡过的,苦不堪言黃柏汁兒里泡過的,苦不堪言黃柏汁兒里泡過的,苦不堪言

soaked in cork-tree juice: bitter beyond words

Saying俗语俗語

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

Meaning: Describes being in an extremely miserable situation.
Wordplay: 苦 (kǔ) means both bitter in taste, as the juice is, and wretched, as in suffering.

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Simplified: 黄柏汁儿里泡过的,苦不堪言
Traditional (Taiwan): 黃柏汁兒里泡過的,苦不堪言
Pinyin: huángbò zhī ér lǐ pàoguo de,kǔbùkānyán
Bopomofo: ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄅㄛˋ ㄓㄦˊ ㄌㄧˇ ㄆㄠˋ ˙ㄍㄨㄛ ˙ㄉㄜ,ㄎㄨˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄢㄧㄢˊ

Written with HSK 6 vocabulary, at CEFR level B2.

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