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饥饿

jī è

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 飢餓

饥饿 (jī è) means "hunger". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 饥饿 means

1. hunger
2. starvation
3. famine

The characters in 饥饿

• 饥jī(bound form) hungry
• 饿èhungry; to starve (sb)

Example sentences

• 我饥饿！
  I'm hungry!
• 饥饿促使他偷窃。
  Jī'è cùshǐ tā tōuqiè.
  Hunger urged him to steal.
• 数千人死于饥饿。
  Thousands of people died of hunger.
• 我是只饥饿的蜘蛛。
  Wǒ shì zhǐ jī'è de zhīzhū.
  I'm a starved spider.
• 难民与饥饿作斗争。
  Nànmín yǔ jī'è zuò dòuzhēng.
  The refugees struggled against hunger.
• 许多工人死于饥饿。
  Many of the workers died of hunger.

Sounds the same

Read jī è, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 积恶accumulated evil

Where 饥饿 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jī è correctly.
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