飢 — kanji meaning “hungry”
飢
hungry, starve
- Meanings
- hungry, starve
- On'yomi
- キ (ki)
- Kun'yomi
- う.える
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1659 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 184
- Chinese reading
- jī — Chinese character page
Words with 飢
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 飢餓 | きが kiga | starvation; famine; hunger |
| 飢え | うえ ue | hunger; starvation |
| 飢饉 | ききん kikin | famine; crop failure |
| 飢える | うえる ueru | to starve; to be famished; to be hungry |
| 飢え死に | うえじに uejini | (death from) starvation; starving to death |
| 飢渇 | きかつ kikatsu | hunger and thirst; starvation |
| 飢餓療法 | きがりょうほう kigaryouhou | starvation diet; fasting cure; hunger cure |
| 水飢饉 | みずききん mizukikin | drought; water shortage |
| 飢寒 | きかん kikan | hunger and cold |
| 飢民 | きみん kimin | starving people |
| 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 |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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