饿

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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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Number of strokes

10

Traditional form

è

Contains the radical

shí

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí

Learning hint

To want  food  shí also provides the pronunciation

Etymology of 饿 è

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

饣我

Explanation

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

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Example sentences using 饿 è

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这里 zhè lǐ yǒu diǎn chī de , shuí 饿 è le 可以 kěyǐ 先点点补 diǎn bǔ .

Here's a bite to eat if anyone's hungry.

gǒu 饿 è le , 所以 suǒyǐ 我们 wǒmen wéi .

The dog was hungry, so we fed it.

他们 tā men yòu Lěng yòu 饿 è , 无助 wú zhù de piāo Xiàng běi .

Cold and hungry, they drifted helplessly towards the Arctic.

Bié 饿 è zhāo xiǎo māo .

Don't starve the kitten.

Wén dào 炉子 lú zi shǎng de Tāng wèi ,使 shǐ 觉得 juéde 饿 è le .

A sniff of the soup cooking on the stove made me hungry.

Words with 饿 è

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
饿 è hungry 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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