百味人生

bǎiwèirénshēng
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 a life of all flavors
  2. 2 life with all its tastes (sweet, bitter, sour, etc.)

Examples

Suān tián kǔ là, bǎiwèi rénshēng.
Sour, sweet, bitter, spicy — life of a hundred flavors.
Zhè běn huíyìlù xiě jǐn le tā de bǎiwèi rénshēng.
This memoir captures every flavor of her life.

Tips

culture
= 'a hundred flavors'; 人生 = 'human life'. A four-character coinage that extends the ('five flavors') metaphor — Chinese culture readily uses 'taste' for 'experience.' Common as a tagline, book title, or food-show name (the CCTV documentary 《人生一串》 plays on the same trope).

Stroke Order

bǎi
wèi
rén
shēng