饉 — kanji meaning “hunger”
饉
hunger
- Meanings
- hunger
- On'yomi
- キン (kin)
- Kun'yomi
- う.える
- Strokes
- 20
- Classical radical
- 184
- Chinese reading
- jǐn — Chinese character page
Words with 饉
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 飢饉 | ききん kikin | famine; crop failure |
| 水飢饉 | みずききん mizukikin | drought; water shortage |
| 豊作飢饉 | ほうさくききん housakukikin | impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests |
| 大飢饉 | だいききん daikikin | great famine; severe famine |
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