Chinese symbol for “starvation”
饥饿
jī è
Traditional: 飢餓
hunger; starvation; famine
The closest CC-CEDICT match for starvation is 饥饿 (jī è), defined as: hunger; starvation; famine.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 饥饿.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 饿死 (餓死) | è sǐ | to starve to death; to be very hungry |
| 挨饿 (挨餓) | ái è | to go hungry; to endure starvation |
| 饿肚子 (餓肚子) | è dù zi | to go hungry; to starve |
See also: Japanese symbol for “starvation”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.