饥饿 (jī è) is a Chinese word meaning “hunger; starvation; famine”.
Meanings
- 1hunger
- 2starvation
- 3famine
- Part of speech
- adjective
Characters in 饥饿
Related words
饿hungry饥渴hungry and thirsty挨饿to go hungry饥荒crop failure饥(bound form) hungry饥variant of 飢|饥[ji1]饥肠辘辘(idiom) stomach rumbling with hunger; very hungry如饥似渴to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly饥寒交迫beset by hunger and cold (idiom)充饥to allay one's hunger画饼充饥lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake啼饥号寒(idiom) to cry from hunger and cold; to suffer extreme poverty