吃水不忘挖井人

see 吃水不忘掘井人[chi1 shui3 bu4 wang4 jue2 jing3 ren2]

to eat / to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate / to destroy / to absorb / to suffer / to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [ji2])

variant of 吃[chi1]

drinking water / to obtain water (for daily needs) / to absorb water / draft (of ship)

surname Shui

water / river / liquid / beverage / additional charges or income / (of clothes) classifier for number of washes

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

to forget / to overlook / to neglect

to dig / to excavate / to scoop out

a well / CL:口[kou3] / neat / orderly

person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]