è

hungry

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
飠 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

is a component form of .

我 sound component

  Sound component

  

I; me

Evolution

餓 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
餓 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
餓 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

饿 () 

è

hungry; greedy for; hunger; to be hungry; to starve (sb)

Most common words with 餓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

饿

hungry

饥饿

hunger

挨饿

to go hungry

饿鬼

glutton

忍饥挨饿

starving