飢 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning

hungry, starve

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • JHS
Kun (native)
  • う(える)JHS
Other languages
  • 拼音ji1
  • 한글gi
  • Hán-Việt

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
10 strokes
Radical
食(しょく)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+98E2

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰飠几

Words using this kanji

  • 飢餓きが食物が無くなり飢えること。starvation, famine, hunger
  • 飢えうえ「うえ」を参照。hunger, starvation
  • 飢えるうえるto starve, to be famished, to be hungry, to be starved of (e.g. love)
  • 飢饉ききん農作物の不作などにより食糧が不足し飢餓となること。 物が不足すること。famine, crop failure, chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
  • 飢え死にうえじに(death from) starvation, starving to death
  • 飢渇きかつ飢えと渇き。飲食ができずに苦しむこと。 飲食ができずに苦しむ。hunger and thirst, starvation
  • 飢寒きかん飢えと寒さ。hunger and cold
  • 飢民きみん飢えている民。starving people
  • 飢凍きとうstarving and freezing to death
  • 飢餓感きがかん(feeling of) hunger
  • 飢渇丸きかつがんstarch-based portable ration pill used by ninja and soldiers
  • 飢餓療法きがりょうほうstarvation diet, fasting cure, hunger cure, inanition treatment
  • 飢え凍えるうえこごえるto starve and freeze to death
  • 飢餓線上にきがせんじょうにon the verge of starvation, at the point of starving
  • 飢えに苦しむうえにくるしむto suffer from hunger

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(24 results)

Similar-looking kanji

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Lookup codes

SKIP
1-8-2
Four Corner
8771.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
8b2.1
Heisig
1585
Nelson
5155