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Definition(s) for: 身在福中不知福

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
身在福中不知福 shēn zài fú zhōng bù zhī fú - to live in plenty without appreciating it (idiom); not to know when one is well off

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HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 73,892 37,324

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
shēn- body
- life
- oneself
- personally
- one's morality and conduct
- the main part of a structure or body
- pregnant
- classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset
- Kangxi radical 158
zài- to exist; to be alive
- (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
- (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
- surname Fu
- abbr. for Fujian province 福建省[Fu2jian4 sheng3]
- good fortune
- happiness
- luck
zhōng- (bound form) China; Chinese
- surname Zhong
zhōng- within; among; in
- middle; center
- while (doing sth); during
- (dialect) OK; all right
zhòng- to hit (the mark)
- to be hit by
- to suffer
- to win (a prize, a lottery)
- no; not so
- (bound form) not; un-
zhī- to know
- to be aware
- surname Fu
- abbr. for Fujian province 福建省[Fu2jian4 sheng3]
- good fortune
- happiness
- luck

Other Words Containing 身在福中不知福

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo