Memory phrase for the character: 饥


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Meaning hungry

Pronunciation

Explanation

Left: food 饣/ (Below the cover is good food.), right: (empty) table

Mnemonic


 
No food on the empty table: I am hungry.

Radicals

eat, food
small tableA similar radical is ordinary: , which shows this table with a scratch. Sometimes this radical is seen as a sail. It is at the right side of composed characters. Also this radical is understood as a table.
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 Vocabulary

饥馑荐臻 jī jǐn jiàn zhēn  famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)
饥寒交迫 jī hán jiāo pò  lit. both hunger and cold press (idiom); starving and freezing; in desperate poverty
饥荒 jī huāng  crop failure; famine; debt; difficulty
如饥似渴 rú jī sì kě  to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly; to long for sth
饥饿 jī è  hunger; starvation; famine
饥肠辘辘 jī cháng lù lù  stomach rumbling with hunger
饥肠辘辘 jī cháng lù lù  


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