如人饮水，冷暖自知
Traditional form:
如人飲水，冷暖自知
Pinyin (reading):
rúrényǐnshuǐ,lěngnuǎnzìzhī
Definitions:
- the person who drinks it knows best whether the water is hot or cold (Zen proverb); self-awareness comes from within
- to know best by personal experience
Characters:
- 如 - as, as if, like, such as, supposing
- 人 - man, person; people
- 饮 - to swallow, to drink; a kind of drink
- 水 - water, liquid, lotion, juice
- 冷 - cold, cool; lonely
- 暖 - warm, genial
- 自 - self; private, personal; from
- 知 - to know, to perceive, to comprehend
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