Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 饥
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饥 |
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Meaning |
hungry |
Pronunciation |
jī |
Explanation |
Left: food 饣/食 (Below the cover  is good 良 food.), right: (empty) table 几 |
Mnemonic
| No food on the empty table: I am hungry. |
Radicals
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食
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eat, food | |
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几
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small table | (A similar radical is ordinary: 凡, which shows this table with a scratch. Sometimes this radical is seen as a sail. It is at the right side of the characters.) |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
| 饥馑荐臻 |
jī jǐn jiàn zhēn |
famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs) | | 饥寒交迫 |
jī hán jiāo pò |
lit. both hunger and cold press (idiom); starving and freezing; in desperate poverty | | 饥荒 |
jī huāng |
crop failure; famine; debt; difficulty | | 如饥似渴 |
rú jī sì kě |
to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly; to long for sth | | 饥饿 |
jī è |
hunger; starvation; famine | | 饥肠辘辘 |
jī cháng lù lù |
stomach rumbling with hunger |
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