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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
jī | ji1
English translation
famine; to starve, to go hungry

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Number of strokes

20

Traditional form

Contains the radical

shí

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

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food

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

飠幾

Semantic compound

shí

Phonetic compound

Explanation

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

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
饥饿 jīè hunger飢餓
饥渴 jī kě hungry and thirsty飢渴
hungry
饥荒 jī huāng famine饑荒
充饥 chōng jī to allay one's hunger充飢
饥肠辘辘 jī cháng lù lù stomach rumbling with hunger飢腸轆轆
饥寒交迫 jī hán jiāo pò starving and freezing飢寒交迫
如饥似渴 rú jī sì kě to long for sth如飢似渴
饥不择食 jī bù zé shí When matters are urgent, don't spend time choosing alternatives.飢不擇食
忍饥挨饿 rěn jī aí è starving忍飢挨餓
画饼充饥 huà bǐng chōng jī to feed on illusions (idiom)畫餅充飢
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
积谷防饥 jī gǔ fáng jī storing grain against a famine積穀防饑
啼饥号寒 tí jī háo hán hunger cries and cold roars (idiom); wretched poverty啼饑號寒
饥馑荐臻 jī jǐn jiàn zhēn famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)饑饉薦臻

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