Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 几 represents the sound.
Components
Traditional (飢)
Simplified (饥)
Notes
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Similar Characters
蝕 eat away (trad)飩 dumplings (trad)飪 cooked food (trad)飫 surfeited (trad)飯 meal (trad/jp)飴 Sweet-Cakes Sweet-Meats (trad)飼 rear (trad/jp)飽 sated (trad/jp)餃 dumpling (trad)餄 noodles either made (trad)餅 cookie (trad/jp)餉 rations and pay (trad)餌 bait (trad/jp)餎 noodles either made (trad)餑 cakes (trad)餒 dispirited (trad)餓 hungry (trad/jp)餕 leftovers (trad)餘 excess (trad)餚 cooked or prepared meat (trad)
Historical Evolution
饥
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
饥
Clerical
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
饥
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
饥
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
饥
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
饥
Regular
Modern
Chinese
饥 / 飢 [jī]
hungry
Example Sentences
CHINESE WORDS (16)
饥饿 [jī'è] #6,246
hunger
饥渴 [jīkě] #8,366
hungry and thirsty
充饥 [chōngjī] #37,433
to allay one's hunger
饥肠辘辘 [jīchánglùlù] #26,905
stomach rumbling with hunger
饥寒交迫 [jīhánjiāopò] #32,623
beset by hunger and cold (idiom)
如饥似渴 [rújīsìkě] #28,936
to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly
饥不择食 [jībùzéshí] #44,098
when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers
忍饥挨饿 [rěnjī'ái'è] #49,614
starving
画饼充饥 [huàbǐngchōngjī] #52,179
lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake
饱汉不知饿汉饥 [bǎohànbùzhī'èhànjī] #65,066
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
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JAPANESE WORDS (24)
⭐ 飢える [うえる] #6,719
to starve
⭐ 飢え [うえ] #15,341
hunger
⭐ 飢餓 [きが] #25,144
starvation
⭐ 飢饉 [ききん] #28,667
famine
⭐ 飢え死に [うえじに] #29,538
(death from) starvation
血に飢える [ちにうえる] #33,777
to be bloodthirsty
飢餓感 [きがかん] #49,649
(feeling of) hunger
愛に飢える [あいにうえる] #67,358
to hunger for love
飢えに苦しむ [うえにくるしむ] #73,041
to suffer from hunger
大飢饉 [だいききん] #79,013
great famine
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KOREAN WORDS (1)