| 饱汉不知饿汉饥 |
bǎo hàn bù zhī è hàn jī |
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom). |
| 饱 |
bǎo |
to eat till full / satisfied |
| 汉 |
Hàn |
Han ethnic group / Chinese (language) / the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) |
| 汉 |
hàn |
man |
| 不 |
bù |
no; not so / (bound form) not; un- |
| 不知 |
bù zhī |
not to know / unaware / unknowingly / fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) |
| 知 |
zhī |
to know / to be aware |
| 饿 |
è |
hungry / to starve (sb) |
| 汉 |
Hàn |
Han ethnic group / Chinese (language) / the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) |
| 汉 |
hàn |
man |
| 饥 |
jī |
(bound form) hungry |
| 饥 |
jī |
variant of 饥 |