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HSK 6
饿
餓
è
1.
to be hungry
2.
hungry
HSK 3
Very Common • Top 2%
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (18)
饿莩
èpiǎo
starving people
饿死
èsǐ
to starve to death
饿殍
èpiǎo
starving people
挨饿
áiè
to go hungry
饿鬼
èguǐ
sb who is always hungry
穷饿
qióngè
exhausted and hungry
解饿
jiěè
to relieve hunger
饥饿
jīè
hunger
饿肚子
èdùzi
to go hungry
受冻挨饿
shòudòngáiè
to go cold and hungry
忍饥挨饿
rěnjīáiè
starving
挨饥抵饿
áijīdǐè
to suffer from hunger
饿殍载道
èpiǎozàidào
starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine
饿莩载道
èpiǎozàidào
starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine
饿莩遍野
èpiǎobiànyě
starving people everywhere (idiom); a state of famine
饱汉不知饿汉饥
bǎohànbùzhīèhànjī
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
饱人不知饿人饥
bǎorénbùzhīèrénjī
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
撑死胆大的，饿死胆小的
chēngsǐdǎndàde,èsǐdǎnxiǎode
fullness for the bold, famine for the timid (idiom)
Example Sentences (1)
我有点儿饿了，我们进超市买点儿东西吧。
Wǒ yǒu diǎnr è le,wǒmen jìn chāoshì mǎi diǎnr dōngxi ba.
I'm a bit hungry. Let's go into the supermarket and buy something.
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Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 3
- Character Frequency Rank
- 1,910
- Word Frequency Rank
- 1,295 of 84,292