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hungry, starving; hunger, famine

🔤 Pictophonetic: 饣 (food) provides meaning, 几 provides pronunciation
HSK 6 5 strokes Common (22%)

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shí
food; to eat
3 strokes
small table; how many; a few, some
📷 Pictographic: A small table; compare 丌
2 strokes HSK 1

Words Using 饥 (20)

jīè
饥饿
HSK 6
hunger / starvation / famine
hungry
jīchánglùlù
饥肠辘辘
stomach rumbling with hunger
huàbǐngchōngjī
画饼充饥
lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake / to feed on illusions (idiom)
jīgǔfángjī
积谷防饥
storing grain against a famine / to lay sth by for a rainy day / also written [[積穀防飢|积谷防饥]]
jībùzéshí
饥不择食
when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers / When matters are urgent, don't spend time choosing alternatives.
jīhánjiāopò
饥寒交迫
beset by hunger and cold (idiom) / starving and freezing / in desperate poverty
jīkě
饥渴
hunger and thirst
bǎorénbùzhīèrénjī
饱人不知饿人饥
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
bǎonuǎnsīyínyù,jīhánqǐdàoxīn
饱暖思淫欲,饥寒起盗心
lechery springs from warmth and nourishment, kleptomania springs from hunger and cold (idiom)
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