饥
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- 1.(bound form) hungry
- 1.variant of 饥[jī]
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- 1.hollow stump of a tree
- 2.empty; hollow
- 3.thin
- 4.hungry
- 5.crop failure; famine; a year in which harvest is poor
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *hraw): semantic 木 + phonetic 号 (OC *ɦlaːws). Substrate word, possibly from a Tai-Kadai language. Compare Thai หิว (hǐu, “hungry”).
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饥饿 hunger饥渴 hungry and thirsty饥荒 crop failure充饥 to allay one's hunger易饥症 bulimia忍饥挨饿 starving饥肠辘辘 (idiom) stomach rumbling with hunger; very hungry漏脯充饥 (lit.) to eat rotten meat to assuage hunger (idiom)如饥似渴 to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly饥不择食 when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers画饼充饥 lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake挨饥抵饿 to suffer from hunger