饿

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hungry

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

Components
饣 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

is a component form of .

我 sound component

  Sound component

  

I; me

Evolution

饿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
饿 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
饿 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

饿 () 

è

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

Most common words with 饿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

饿

hungry

饥饿

hunger

挨饿

to go hungry

饿鬼

glutton

忍饥挨饿

starving

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ŋˤaj-s

ngaH

è

hungry


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 29.9856% of movies

1194th most common character in movies

1911th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+997F


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