Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「不知甘苦」, with more below.
The Chinese idiom we are introducing this time is 「不知甘苦」. You can find its meaning and application outlined below.
Sweet and bitter: sweet and bitter, mostly referring to bitter. Can’t tell whether it’s sweet or bitter. Describes that doing something is not easy or that one has no understanding of the hardships of predecessors.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bù zhī gān kǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bat1 ji1 gam1 fu2
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