created sense approved 饱人不知饿人饥/飽人不知餓人飢 · bǎorénbùzhī'èrénjī · the well-off cannot empathize with the badly-off — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
饱人不知饿人饥 / 飽人不知餓人飢
bǎorénbùzhī'èrénjī
the well-off cannot empathize with the badly-off
(idiom) Lit. a well-fed person does not know the suffering of a starving person; used to mean that someone in a comfortable position cannot understand or sympathize with the hardships of others.
饱 (literal) → 饱/飽 · bǎo · full 人 (literal) → 人 · rén · person of a type 不知 (literal) → 不知 · bùzhī · not to know 饿 (literal) → 饿/餓 · è · hungry 人 (literal) → 人 · rén · person of a type 饥 (literal) → 饥/飢 · jī · hungry
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