Memory phrase for the character: 饥

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

食	eat, food	A person 人 needs something good 良 to eat, whereby the two bottom lines can perhaps also be seen as chopsticks.
几	small table	A similar radical is ordinary: 凡, which shows this table with a scratch. Sometimes this radical is seen as a sail. Also this radical is understood as a table.

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
饥肠辘辘	jī cháng lù lù

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