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饥

jī

HSK 6 Character Traditional 飢

What 饥 means

1. bound formhungry

Other readings

饥 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• jīvariant of {饥|jī}

Example sentences

• 我饥饿！
  I'm hungry!
• 他面有饥色
  He had a hungry look.
• 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.

Words starting with 饥

• 饥饿jī èhunger; starvation; famine
• 饥荒jī huāngcrop failure; famine; debt
• 饥渴jī kěhungry and thirsty; (fig.) to crave (knowledge, love etc)
• 饥肠辘辘jī cháng lù lù(idiom) stomach rumbling with hunger; very hungry
• 饥寒交迫jī hán jiāo pòbeset by hunger and cold (idiom); starving and freezing; in desperate poverty
• 饥不择食jī bù zé shíwhen hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers…
• 饥馑荐臻jī jǐn jiàn zhēnfamine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)

Words containing 饥

• 充饥chōng jīto allay one's hunger
• 如饥似渴rú jī sì kěto hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly; to long for sth
• 易饥症yì jī zhèngbulimia
• 画饼充饥huà bǐng chōng jīlit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake; to feed on illusions (idiom)
• 积谷防饥jī gǔ fáng jīstoring grain against a famine; to lay sth by for a rainy day; also written 积谷防饥
• 忍饥挨饿rěn jī ái èstarving; famished
• 挨饥抵饿ái jī dǐ èto suffer from hunger
• 漏脯充饥lòu fǔ chōng jī(lit.) to eat rotten meat to assuage hunger (idiom)…
• 啼饥号寒tí jī háo hán(idiom) to cry from hunger and cold; to suffer extreme poverty
• 饱人不知饿人饥bǎo rén bù zhī è rén jīThe well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
• 饱汉不知饿汉饥bǎo hàn bù zhī è hàn jīThe 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 xīnlechery springs from warmth and nourishment, kleptomania springs from hunger and cold…

Characters that look like 饥

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 机jī(bound form) machine; mechanism; (bound form) aircraft; (bound form) an opportunity
• 仅jǐnbarely; only; merely
• 轨guǐ(bound form) rail; track; course; path
• 纨wán(literary) fine white silk; delicate silk fabric
• 佤WǎWa ethnic group
• 伍wǔsquad of five soldiers; to associate with; five (banker's anti-fraud numeral)

Sounds the same

Read jī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 机(bound form) machine; mechanism; (bound form) aircraft; (bound form) an opportunity
• 鸡fowl; chicken; (slang) prostitute
• 击to hit; to strike; to break
• 基(bound form) base; foundation; (bound form) radical (chemistry)…
• 积to amass; to accumulate; to store up; (math) product (the result of multiplication)…
• 激to arouse; to incite; to excite
• 圾used in 垃圾; Taiwan pr. sè
• 肌(bound form) flesh; muscle
• 缉to seize; to arrest; Taiwan pr. qì
• 讥to ridicule
• 姬woman; concubine; female entertainer (archaic)
• 奇odd (number)