飽人不知餓人飢 bǎo rén bù zhī è rén jī

The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).

Characters

Character Meaning
to eat till full; satisfied
person; people; man
not; no; (negative prefix)
to know; to be aware
hungry; to be hungry; to starve (sb)
person; people; man
variant of ; hungry