忘恩
wàng ēn
Pinyin

Definition

忘恩
 - 
wàng ēn
  1. to be ungrateful

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

忘
wàng
  1. 1 to forget
  2. 2 to overlook
  3. 3 to neglect
忘记
wàng jì
  1. 1 to forget
感恩
gǎn ēn
  1. 1 to be grateful
恩
ēn
  1. 1 variant: 恩 ēn
健忘
jiàn wàng
  1. 1 forgetful

Idioms (20)

公而忘私
gōng ér wàng sī
  1. 1 for the common good and forgetting personal interests (idiom); to behave altruistically
  2. 2 selfless
刻薄寡恩
kè bó guǎ ēn
  1. 1 harsh and merciless (idiom)
前事不忘，后事之师
qián shì bù wàng , hòu shì zhī shī
  1. 1 don't forget past events, they can guide you in future (idiom); benefit from past experience
吃水不忘掘井人
chī shuǐ bù wàng jué jǐng rén
  1. 1 Drinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dug it. (idiom)
好了伤疤忘了疼
hǎo le shāng bā wàng le téng
  1. 1 to forget past pains once the wound has healed (idiom)

Sample Sentences

我决定了！我坚决不同意把妈送到敬老院去！最近就为这事在思想斗争，心里好像老是有个声音在朝我大吼“ 忘恩负义！”，弄得我觉都睡不好！
wǒ juédìng le ！wǒ jiānjué bùtóngyì bǎ mā sòngdào jìnglǎoyuàn qù ！zuìjìn jiù wèi zhè shì zài sīxiǎngdòuzhēng ，xīnli hǎoxiàng lǎoshi yǒu ge shēngyīn zài cháo wǒ dà hǒu “ wàngēnfùyì ！”，nòng de wǒ jiào dōu shuìbuhǎo ！
I've made up my mind! I'm determined not to send Mom to live in a retirement home. I've been doing some serious soul-searching lately. It seems like there's a voice inside me that's always shouting ''You're ungrateful!" It's gotten so I'm not even sleeping well!
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有的时候，在中国，我们看到一个人，他爸爸妈妈很辛苦地培养他，然后，他长大以后忘恩负义，他也不照顾他们，不去看他们。这样的人就是白眼狼。
yǒudeshíhou ，zài Zhōngguó ，wǒmen kàndào yī ge rén ，tā bàba māma hěn xīnkǔ de péiyǎng tā ，ránhòu ，tā zhǎngdà yǐhòu wàng ēnfùyì ，tā yě bù zhàogu tāmen ，bù qù kàn tāmen 。zhèyàng de rén jiùshì báiyǎnláng 。
Sometimes in China we see a person whose parents toiled raising him, but then after he grows up he’s ungrateful. He doesn‘t take care of them or go to see them. This kind of person is a white-eyed wolf.
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形容忘恩负义的人。
xíngróng wàng ēnfùyì de rén 。
someone who is described as ungrateful
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