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饿 è

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饿 è Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
è | e4
English translation
to be hungry
hungry
hungry; greedy

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About 饿 è

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HSK level

3

Number of strokes

10

Traditional form

餓 è

Contains the radical

饣 shí

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí

Learning hint

To want 我 wǒ  food 饣 shí ; 我 wǒ also provides the pronunciation

Etymology of 饿 è

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

⿰饣我

Explanation

Simplified form of 餓 è . Phonosemantic compound. 飠 shí represents the meaning and 我 wǒ represents the sound.

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Example sentences using 饿 è

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她 tā 干吗 gàn má 要 yāo 养活 yǎng huo 这 zhè 群 qún 饿 è 痨 láo 鬼 guǐ 呢 ne ?

Why should she feed this horde of hungry men?

已到中午 zhōngwǔ 了 le , 她 tā 的 de 肚子 dùzi 也 Yě 饿 è 了 le .

High noon came, and with it hunger.

把 bǎ 我 wǒ 饿 è 到头 dào tóu ,让 ràng 我 wǒ 死 sǐ 吧 bā .

Finish it off and let me die.

OEA发出 fā chū 饥饿 jīè 抑制 yì zhì 信息 xìnxī 到 dào 大脑 dà nǎo ,增加 zēngjiā 饱 bǎo 胀 zhàng 感 gǎn .

OEA sends hunger - curbing messages to the brain to increase feelings of fullness.

杰克 Jié kè 也 Yě 和 hé 比利 Bǐ lì 一样 yīyàng 饿 è 了 le .

Jacky was just as hungry as Billy.

Words with 饿 è

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
饿 è hungry餓 è
饥饿 jīè hunger飢餓
挨饿 aí è to go hungry挨餓
饿鬼 è guǐ glutton餓鬼
忍饥挨饿 rěn jī aí è starving忍飢挨餓
饿殍 è piǎo starving people餓殍
饿虎扑食 è hǔ pū shí like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey餓虎撲食
解饿 jiě è to relieve hunger解餓
饱汉不知饿汉饥 bǎo hàn bù zhī è hàn jī The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).飽漢不知餓漢飢
饿殍载道 è piǎo zài dào starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine餓殍載道
饿莩遍野 è piǎo biàn yě starving people everywhere (idiom); a state of famine餓莩遍野

饿 è Decomposition & Compounds

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饿 è Decomposition

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