端起碗吃肉，放下筷子骂娘
Traditional form:
端起碗吃肉，放下筷子罵娘
Pinyin (reading):
duānqǐwǎnchīròu,fàngxiàkuàizimàniáng
Definitions:
- 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
Characters:
- 端 - end, extreme; head; beginning
- 起 - to begin, to initiate; to rise, to stand up
- 碗 - bowl, small dish
- 吃 - to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
- 肉 - meat; flesh
- 放 - to release, to liberate, to free
- 下 - below, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next
- 筷 - chopsticks
- 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
- 骂 - to accuse, to blame, to curse, to scold
- 娘 - mother; young girl; woman; wife
Traditional characters:
- 端 - end, extreme; head; beginning
- 起 - to begin, to initiate; to rise, to stand up
- 碗 - bowl, small dish
- 吃 - to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
- 肉 - meat; flesh
- 放 - to release, to liberate, to free
- 下 - below, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next
- 筷 - chopsticks
- 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
- 罵 - to accuse, to blame, to curse, to scold
- 娘 - mother; young girl; woman; wife