身在福中不知福

Chinese

		to be located in	good fortune; happiness; luck good fortune; happiness; luck; Fujian province (abbrev.); surname	middle; centre; within middle; centre; within; among; in; while (doing sth); during; China; Chinese; hit (the mark)	to not know; to have no idea of; to be ignorant of to not know; to have no idea of; to be ignorant of; to wonder if	good fortune; happiness; luck good fortune; happiness; luck; Fujian province (abbrev.); surname
trad. (身在福中不知福)		身在	福	中	不知	福
simp. ^#(身在福中不知福)		身在	福	中	不知	福

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shēn zài fú zhōng bùzhī fú

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄣㄗㄞˋ ㄈㄨˊ ㄓㄨㄥㄅㄨˋ ㄓㄈㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): san¹ zoi⁶ fuk¹ zung¹ bat¹ zi¹ fuk¹

身在福中不知福

to live in plenty without appreciating it; to be oblivious to the good life that one has (and hence be ungrateful)

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