"饥" Chinese-English Dictionary

饥 jī

Traditional: 饑
Radical: 食 (9 traits)
Number of strokes: 5
Structure: gauche et droite

Cangjie: NVHN 弓女竹弓
Sijiao: 0277.1
Wubi: QNMN
GB 2312: BCA2
Unicode: U+9965

Decomposition Practice Sheet Dictionary of examples Synonyms

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
饥饑	jī	variant of 飢\|饥[ji1]	syn

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
饥饿飢餓	jī è	hunger / starvation / famine	syn
饥渴飢渴	jī kě	hungry and thirsty / (fig.) to crave (knowledge, love etc)
饥荒饑荒	jī huāng	crop failure / famine / debt / difficulty	syn
饥荒期飢荒期	jī huāng qī	hunger gap
饥寒交迫飢寒交迫	jī hán jiāo pò	beset by hunger and cold (idiom) / starving and freezing / in desperate poverty	syn
饥不择食飢不擇食	jī bù zé shí	when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom) / beggars can't be choosers / When matters are urgent, don't spend time choosing alternatives.	syn
饥肠辘辘飢腸轆轆	jī cháng lù lù	stomach rumbling with hunger	syn
饥馑荐臻饑饉薦臻	jī jǐn jiàn zhēn	famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)
饥肠辘辘飢腸轆轆	jī cháng - lù lù	(idiom) stomach rumbling with hunger / very hungry	syn

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
充饥充飢	chōng jī	to allay one's hunger	syn
大饥荒大饑荒		Holodomor
易饥症易飢症	yì jī zhèng	bulimia
如饥似渴如飢似渴	rú jī sì kě	to hunger for sth (idiom) / eagerly / to long for sth	syn
画饼充饥畫餅充飢	huà bǐng chōng jī	lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake / to feed on illusions (idiom)	syn
积谷防饥積穀防饑	jī gǔ fáng jī	storing grain against a famine / to lay sth by for a rainy day / also written 積穀防飢\|积谷防饥
漏脯充饥漏脯充飢	lòu fǔ chōng jī	to bury one's head in the sand (idiom)
长期饥饿長期饑餓		chronic hunger
挨饥抵饿挨飢抵餓	ái jī dǐ è	to suffer from hunger
充饥止渴充飢止渴	chōng jī zhǐ kě	to allay one's hunger and slake one's thirst (idiom)
漏脯充饥漏脯充飢	lòu fǔ - chōng jī	lit. to eat rotten meat to assuage hunger (idiom) / fig. to disregard long-term consequences for short-term benefits / shortsighted
忍饥挨饿忍飢挨餓	rěn jī ái è	starving / famished
啼饥号寒啼饑號寒	tí jī háo hán	hunger cries and cold roars (idiom) / wretched poverty	syn
隐性饥饿	yìn xìng jī è	hidden hunger