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饥荒

jī huāng

2-character word Traditional 饑荒

What 饥荒 means

1. crop failure
2. famine
3. debt
4. difficulty

The characters in 饥荒

• 饥jī(bound form) hungry
• 荒huāngdesolate; shortage; scarce

Example sentences

• 斯蒂芬·奥布莱恩，联合国负责人道主义事务副秘书长兼紧急救济协调员，声称在也门、索马里、南苏丹和尼日利亚，超过2000万人面临饥荒的威胁。
  Sīdìfēn · ào Bùlái'ēn, Liánhéguó fùzérén dào zhǔyì shìwù fùmìshūzhǎng jiān jǐnjí jiùjì xiétiáoyuán, shēngchēng zài Yěmén, Suǒmǎlǐ, Nán Sūdān hé Nírìlìyà, chāoguò 2000 wànrén miànlín jīhuāng de wēixié.
  Stephen O'Brien, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, has said that more than 20 million people faced the threat of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.
• 在过去一个相当长的时期里，社会都是等级制度森严并且极度不公的，做为社会阶级中最大一部分的贫农常常被赋税，战争，饥荒压得喘不过气来，痛苦不堪。
  Zài guòqù yī gè xiāngdāng cháng de shíqī lǐ, shèhuì dōu shì děngjí zhìdù sēnyán bìngqiě jídù bùgōng de, zuò wéi shèhuì jiējí zhōng zuì dà yī bùfen de pín nóng chángcháng bèi fùshuì, zhànzhēng, jīhuang yā de chuǎnbuguò qì lái, tòngkǔ bùkān.
  For a long time, society was strongly hierarchical and unequal, primarily composed of peasants. The most backward, impoverished segment of the population, they were crushed by the weight of taxes, wars, and famines.