餓 — kanji meaning “starve”
餓
starve, hungry, thirst
- Meanings
- starve, hungry, thirst
- On'yomi
- ガ (ga)
- Kun'yomi
- う.える
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1754 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 184
- Chinese reading
- è — Chinese character page
Words with 餓
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 飢餓 | きが kiga | starvation; famine; hunger |
| 餓死 | がし gashi | (death from) starvation; starving to death |
| 餓鬼 | がき gaki | brat; kid; urchin |
| 餓狼 | がろう garou | hungry wolf |
| 施餓鬼 | せがき segaki | service for the benefit of suffering spirits |
| 餓鬼道 | がきどう gakidou | hungry ghost realm; preta realm |
| 飢餓療法 | きがりょうほう kigaryouhou | starvation diet; fasting cure; hunger cure |
| 餓死寸前 | がしすんぜん gashisunzen | being on the verge of starvation; being about to starve |
| 川施餓鬼 | かわせがき kawasegaki | Buddhist services in memory of those drowned in a river; offering to suffering spirits at the river |
| 飢餓感 | きがかん kigakan | (feeling of) hunger |
| 糞餓鬼 | くそがき kusogaki | stupid brat; son of a bitch |
| 餓虎 | がこ gako | starving tiger |
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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