饥 — Chinese character
饥
jī
hungry, starving; hunger, famine
- Pinyin
- jī
- Radical
- 184 ⾷ (Eat)
- Strokes
- 5
- Components
- 饣 几
- Formation
- pictophonetic — food; meaning component 饣; sound component 几
- Traditional
- 飢 饑
Common words with 饥
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 饥饿 (飢餓) | jī è | hunger; starvation |
| 饥荒 (饑荒) | jī huāng | crop failure; famine |
| 饥渴 (飢渴) | jī kě | hungry and thirsty; (fig.) to crave (knowledge, love etc) |
| 充饥 (充飢) | chōng jī | to allay one's hunger |
| 如饥似渴 (如飢似渴) | rú jī sì kě | to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly; to long for sth |
| 饥肠辘辘 (飢腸轆轆) | jī cháng lù lù | (idiom) stomach rumbling with hunger; very hungry |
| 饥寒交迫 (飢寒交迫) | jī hán jiāo pò | beset by hunger and cold (idiom); starving and freezing |
| 饥不择食 (飢不擇食) | jī bù zé shí | when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers; When matters are urgent, don't spend time choosing alternatives. |
| 忍饥挨饿 (忍飢挨餓) | rěn jī ái è | starving; famished |
| 画饼充饥 (畫餅充飢) | huà bǐng chōng jī | lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake; to feed on illusions (idiom) |
| 啼饥号寒 (啼饑號寒) | tí jī háo hán | (idiom) to cry from hunger and cold; to suffer extreme poverty |
| 挨饥抵饿 (挨飢抵餓) | ái jī dǐ è | to suffer from hunger |
English words written with 饥
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.