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饿

è

HSK 3 Character Traditional 餓

What 饿 means

1. hungry
2. to starve (sb)

Example sentences

• 我饿了！
  I felt hungry.
• 我很饿。
  I was very hungry.
• 我好饿！
  Am I hungry!
• 饿了吗？
  Hungry?
• 我饥饿！
  I'm hungry!
• 我好饿。
  I'm very hungry.

Words starting with 饿

• 饿死è sǐto starve to death; to be very hungry
• 饿鬼è guǐsb who is always hungry; glutton; (Buddhism) hungry ghost
• 饿虎扑食è hǔ pū shílike a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey
• 饿肚子è dù zito go hungry; to starve
• 饿扁è biǎn(colloquial) to be famished; ravenously hungry
• 饿莩载道è piǎo zài dàostarved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine
• 饿莩遍野è piǎo biàn yěstarving people everywhere (idiom); a state of famine
• 饿殍è piǎostarving people
• 饿殍载道è piǎo zài dàostarved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine
• 饿莩è piǎovariant of 饿殍

Words containing 饿

• 饥饿jī èhunger; starvation; famine
• 挨饿ái èto go hungry; to endure starvation; famished
• 穷饿qióng èexhausted and hungry
• 解饿jiě èto relieve hunger
• 忍饥挨饿rěn jī ái èstarving; famished
• 挨饥抵饿ái jī dǐ èto suffer from hunger
• 挨饿受冻ái è shòu dòng(idiom) to go cold and hungry
• 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).
• 老天爷饿不死瞎家雀lǎo tiān yé è bù sǐ xiā jiā quèlit. heaven won't let the sparrows go hungry (idiom); fig. don't give up hope…
• 撑死胆大的，饿死胆小的chēng sǐ dǎn dà de , è sǐ dǎn xiǎo defullness for the bold, famine for the timid (idiom)
• 受冻挨饿shòu dòng ái èsee 挨饿受冻
• 挨冻受饿ái dòng shòu èsee 挨饿受冻

Characters built on 我

These share the phonetic component 我 (wǒ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 俄ésuddenly; very soon
• 哦éto chant
• 鹅égoose
• 蛾é(bound form) moth
• 娥égood; beautiful
• 峨élofty; name of a mountain
• 莪ézedoary (Curcuma zedoaria), plant rhizome similar to turmeric
• 锇éosmium (chemistry)

Characters that look like 饿

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

• 俄ésuddenly; very soon
• 恒héngpermanent; constant; fixed
• 铜tóngcopper (chemistry); see also 红铜
• 馅xiànfilling; stuffing (for dumplings, pies etc)
• 饷xiǎngsoldier's pay
• 掴guāito slap; also pr. guó

Sounds the same

Read è, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 恶evil; fierce; vicious
• 遏to restrain; to check; to hold back
• 厄distressed
• 呃(exclamation); to hiccup
• 萼calyx of a flower
• 锷blade edge; sharp
• 鳄(bound form) alligator; crocodile
• 愕startled
• 噩startling
• 扼to grip forcefully; to clutch at; to guard
• 颚jaw; palate
• 轭yoke