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  1. lit. to eat meat from one's bowl, then put down one's chopsticks and scold one's mother (idiom); fig. to complain despite being privileged; to be ungrateful for what one has been given

    trad. 端起碗吃肉,放下筷子罵娘

Also written 端起碗吃肉,放下筷子罵娘【duān qǐ wǎn chī ròu , fàng xià kuài zi mà niáng】

Characters in this word

11
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to rise, to raise, to get up, to set out, to start, to appear, to launch, to initiate (action), to draft, to establish, to get (from a depot or counter), verb suffix, to start, starting from (a time, place, price etc), classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance, classifier for groups: batch, group

Pinyin
Strokes
10
Frequency
687 of 2500
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

down, downwards, below, lower, later, next (week etc), second (of two parts), to decline, to go down, to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc), measure word to show the frequency of an action

Pinyin
xià
Strokes
3
Frequency
184 of 2500
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

son, child, seed, egg, small thing, 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat, viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4], ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north), subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-

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Strokes
3
Frequency
2170 of 2500