何不食肉糜 Save Sign in to save words hébùshíròumí ㄏㄜˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄕˊ ㄖㄡˋ ㄇㄧˊ "Why don't they eat meat porridge?" (said by Emperor Hui of Jin 晋惠帝 jìnhuìdì when told that his people lacked rice) (saying) lit. to be oblivious to the suffering of ordinary people fig. Character by character 何(hé)surname He 不(bù)no 食(shí)eat 肉(ròu)meat 糜(mí)surname Mi A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0