飽漢不知餓漢飢 bǎo hàn bù zhī è hàn 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
飽 bǎo
to eat till full; satisfied
漢 hàn
Han ethnic group; Chinese (language)
不 bù HSK 1
not; no; (negative prefix)
知 zhī HSK 2
to know; to be aware
餓 è
hungry; to be hungry; to starve (sb)
漢 hàn
Han ethnic group; Chinese (language)
飢 jī
variant of 飢jī; hungry