hunger

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
饣 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

is a component form of .

几 sound component

  Sound component

  

small table

Evolution

饥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
饥 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
饥 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
饥 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

hunger, starving; hungry; a famine

() 

variant of |[jī]

Most common words with 饥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

饥饿

hunger

饥渴

hungry and thirsty

hungry

饥荒

famine

充饥

to allay one's hunger

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.2081% of movies

2250th most common character in movies

2173rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Traditional

Unicode

U+9965


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