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飽人不知餓人飢
简 饱人不知饿人饥 · 繁 飽人不知餓人飢Mandarin · pinyin bǎo rén bù zhī è rén jī
Meanings
- The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
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- 飽
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- 人
- rén · man; people; mankind; someone else
- 不
- bù · no, not; un-; negative prefix
- 知
- zhī · know, perceive, comprehend
- 餓
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- 飢
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- 饱
- bǎo · eat heartily; eat one's fill
- 饿
- è · hungry; greedy for; hunger
- 饥
- jī · hunger, starving; hungry; a famine
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Mandarin tones
3–2–4–1–4–2–1 · bao3 ren2 bu4 zhi1 e4 ren2 ji1
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Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.Compare dictionary sources 1 Cantonese reading
baau2 jan4 bat1 zi1 ngo6 jan4 gei1
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