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饱人不知饿人饥

饿 bǎo rén zhī è rén The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
bǎo to eat till full / satisfied
  rén person; people / CL:,
   no; not so / (bound form) not; un-
   zhī not to know / unaware / unknowingly / fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
    zhī to know / to be aware
    饿 è hungry / to starve (sb)
      rén person; people / CL:,
       (bound form) hungry
       variant of
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