饿(è)

HSK 110 strokesTrad. 餓

hungry

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Character information

Pinyin
è
Meaning
hungry; to starve (sb)
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 1
Traditional
餓

Origin & structure

Where 饿 comes from and how its parts fit together.

Ideograph⿰饣我

To want 我 food 饣; 我 also provides the pronunciation

A combination of parts whose meanings add up to the whole.

Made of

饣shí我wǒ

Parts are arranged left to right.

Traditional form 餓: To want 我 food 飠; 我 also provides the pronunciation

How to write 饿 step by step

10 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.

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Words with 饿

Common words using 饿 — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.

rěn忍jī饥āi挨è饿
HSK 7-9

starving

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jī饥è饿
HSK 7-9

hunger

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āi挨è饿

to go hungry; to endure starvation; famished

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qióng穷è饿

exhausted and hungry

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jiě解è饿

to relieve hunger

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āi挨dòng冻shòu受è饿

see 挨饿受冻

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è饿sǐ死

to starve to death

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è饿piǎo莩zǎi载dào道

starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine

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