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吃水不忘掘井人
chī shuǐ bù wàng jué jǐng rén
What 吃水不忘掘井人 means
- Drinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dug it. (idiom)
The characters in 吃水不忘掘井人
- 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
- 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
- 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 忘wàngto forget; to overlook; to neglect
- 掘juéto dig
- 井jǐnga well; neat; orderly
- 人rénperson; people
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