饥
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(bound form) hungry
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How 饥 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
饣 (semantic, “food”) + 几 (phonetic, jǐ)
How to remember it
starving · Heisig RSH #2517
食 food + small table
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 几
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 几 (jǐ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 几 sound component | jǐ | small table; how many; a few, some |
| 肌 | jī | flesh, skin; muscle, tissue; meat on bones |
| 铅 | qiān | lead |
| 叽 | jī | to grumble; to sigh |
| 矶 | jī | jetty, reef; breakwater, eddy |
| 讥 | jī | to ridicule, to mock, to jeer |
| 玑 | jī | an oblong pearl |
| 虮 | jǐ | nits, lice |
| 麂 | jǐ | a species of deer |
| 処 | chǔ | place, locale; department |
Words containing 饥
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 饱人不知饿人饥 | bǎo rén bù zhī è rén jī | The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom). |
| 饱暖思淫欲，饥寒起盗心 | bǎo nuǎn sī yín yù , jī hán qǐ dào xīn | lechery springs from warmth and nourishment, kleptomania springs from hunger and cold (idi… |
| 饱汉不知饿汉饥 | bǎo hàn bù zhī è hàn jī | The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom). |
| 积谷防饥 | jī gǔ fáng jī | storing grain against a famine; to lay sth by for a rainy day; also written 積穀防飢|积谷防饥 |
| 易饥症 | yì jī zhèng | bulimia |
| 饥不择食 | jī bù zé shí | when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers; When matters … |
| 饥寒交迫 | jī hán jiāo pò | beset by hunger and cold (idiom); starving and freezing; in desperate poverty |
| 画饼充饥 | huà bǐng chōng jī | lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake; to feed on illusions (idiom) |
| 啼饥号寒 | tí jī háo hán | (idiom) to cry from hunger and cold; to suffer extreme poverty |
| 如饥似渴 | rú jī sì kě | to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly; to long for sth |
| 充饥 | chōng jī | to allay one's hunger |
| 饥荒 | jī huāng | crop failure; famine; debt; difficulty |
| 忍饥挨饿 | rěn jī ái è | starving; famished |
| 挨饥抵饿 | ái jī dǐ è | to suffer from hunger |
| 漏脯充饥 | lòu fǔ chōng jī | (lit.) to eat rotten meat to assuage hunger (idiom); (fig.) to disregard long-term consequ… |
| 饥饿 | jī è | hunger; starvation; famine |
| 饥渴 | jī kě | hungry and thirsty; (fig.) to crave (knowledge, love etc) |
| 饥肠辘辘 | jī cháng lù lù | (idiom) stomach rumbling with hunger; very hungry |
| 饥馑荐臻 | jī jǐn jiàn zhēn | famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs) |