飽漢不知餓漢飢
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Chinese[edit]
to eat till full; satisfied | Chinese; name of a dynasty; man | to be hungry; hungry | Chinese; name of a dynasty; man | hungry | |||
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trad. (飽漢不知餓漢飢/飽漢不知餓漢饑) | 飽 | 漢 | 不知 | 餓 | 漢 | 飢/饑 | |
simp. (饱汉不知饿汉饥) | 饱 | 汉 | 不知 | 饿 | 汉 | 饥 | |
Literally: “well-fed men do not know starving men's hunger”. |
Pronunciation[edit]
Idiom[edit]
飽漢不知餓漢飢
- the well-fed do not know how the starving suffer; to have no realization of how others feel; to be oblivious