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飽漢不知餓漢飢
简 饱汉不知饿汉饥 · 繁 飽漢不知餓漢飢Mandarin · pinyin bǎo hàn bù zhī è hàn jī
Meanings
- The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
Characters in this entry
- 飽
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- 漢
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- 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
- 汉
- hàn · Chinese people; Chinese language
- 饿
- è · hungry; greedy for; hunger
- 饥
- jī · hunger, starving; hungry; a famine
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Mandarin tones
3–4–4–1–4–4–1 · bao3 han4 bu4 zhi1 e4 han4 ji1
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baau2 hon3 bat1 zi1 ngo6 hon3 gei1
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phrase
- (idiomatic) the well-fed do not know how the starving suffer; to have no realization of how others feel; to be oblivious
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