King's Kung-Fu& Tai Chi

饑 — Chinese character

饑
jī
famine; to starve, to go hungry

Pinyin
jī
Radical
184 ⾷ (Eat)
Strokes
20
Components
飠 幾
Formation
pictophonetic — food; meaning component 飠; sound component 幾
Simplified
饥
Japanese
饑 as a kanji

饑 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 2 · Analects 2 · Mencius 3

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.