饿 è

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Number of strokes

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

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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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.

Explore 11 words and sayings that include the Chinese character 饿 è in their composition.

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Simplified	Meaning	Traditional
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