饿

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èno initial · 4th tone — spelling rules

hungry

Radical: 饣 Strokes: 10 HSK 1

Structure: Left narrow, right wideFrequency: Common

Same radical

饮饭馆饰饼饥饱饶饬饷馈馔

Same radical

饮饭馆饰饼饥饱饶饬饷馈馔饵馋馁

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Character Decomposition

饿=饣+我

Etymology

To want 我 food 饣; 我 also provides the pronunciation

Meanings

hungry

to starve (sb)

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Words with 饿 68 total

sb who is always hungry · glutton · (Buddhism) hungry ghost饿鬼è guǐ starving people饿殍è piǎo hunger · starvation · famine饥饿jī è

Idioms with 饿 19 total Chain

The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).饱汉不知饿汉饥bǎo hàn bù zhī è hàn jī The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).饱人不知饿人饥bǎo rén bù zhī è rén jī starving people everywhere (idiom); a state of famine饿莩遍野è piǎo biàn yě starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine饿莩载道è piǎo zài dào like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey饿虎扑食è hǔ pū shí