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He has tasted sweets and bitters of life.
They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

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Open the tool →酸苦 (suān kǔ) means “bitter and painful; poignant”.
酸苦 is pronounced suān kǔ in Mandarin Chinese.
“bitter and painful; poignant” is 酸苦 (suān kǔ) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 酸苦, each with pinyin and an English translation.