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è Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
è | e4
English translation
hungry; greedy

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About è

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Number of strokes

15

Traditional form

è

Contains the radical

shí

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

To want  food  shí also provides the pronunciation

Etymology of è

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

飠我

Explanation

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

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Words with 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

è Decomposition & Compounds

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