Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 我 represents the sound.
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蝕 eat away (trad)飢 starving (trad/jp)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)餕 leftovers (trad)餘 excess (trad)餚 cooked or prepared meat (trad)
Historical Evolution
饿
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
饿
Clerical
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
饿
Regular
Modern
Chinese
饿 / 餓 [è]
to be hungry; hungry; to starve (sb)
Example Sentences
CHINESE WORDS (20)
饥饿 [jī'è] #6,246
hunger
挨饿 [ái'è] #9,932
to go hungry
饿鬼 [èguǐ] #47,481
sb who is always hungry
忍饥挨饿 [rěnjī'ái'è] #49,614
starving
饿殍 [èpiǎo] #59,677
starving people
饿虎扑食 [èhǔpūshí] #61,514
like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey
解饿 [jiě'è] #64,507
to relieve hunger
饱汉不知饿汉饥 [bǎohànbùzhī'èhànjī] #65,066
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
饿殍载道 [èpiǎozàidào] #71,606
starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine
饿莩遍野 [èpiǎobiànyě] #74,650
starving people everywhere (idiom); a state of famine
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JAPANESE WORDS (24)
⭐ 飢える [うえる] #6,719
to starve
⭐ 飢え [うえ] #15,341
hunger
⭐ 餓死 [がし] #18,348
(death from) starvation
餓鬼 [がき] #20,064
brat
⭐ 飢餓 [きが] #25,144
starvation
⭐ 飢え死に [うえじに] #29,538
(death from) starvation
ガキ共 [ガキども] #40,956
damn kids
悪ガキ [わるがき] #46,285
brat
飢餓感 [きがかん] #49,649
(feeling of) hunger
餓狼 [がろう] #64,954
hungry wolf
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KOREAN WORDS (1)