"hungry" Chinese-English Dictionary

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
饿餓	è	hungry / to starve (sb)	syn
馁餒	něi	(bound form) hungry / starving / (bound form) dispirited / (literary) (of fish) putrid	syn

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
饿鬼餓鬼	è guǐ	sb who is always hungry / glutton / (Buddhism) hungry ghost
饿虎扑食餓虎撲食	è hǔ pū shí	like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey
菜色	cài sè	dish / lean and hungry look (resulting from vegetarian diet) / emaciated look (from malnutrition)
饿死餓死	è sǐ	to starve to death / to be very hungry
饥渴飢渴	jī kě	hungry and thirsty / (fig.) to crave (knowledge, love etc)
挨饿挨餓	ái è	to go hungry / to endure starvation / famished	syn
饿肚子餓肚子	è dù zi	to go hungry / to starve
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
喝西北风喝西北風	hē xī běi fēng	lit. to drink the northwest wind (idiom) / fig. to go hungry / to have nothing to eat	syn
薖	kē	big / hungry-looking
消除饥饿请愿 - 10亿人在挨饿消除饑餓請願 - 10億人在挨餓		Petition to End Hunger - 1 Billion Hungry Campaign / 1 billion hungry Petition to end Hunger
穷饿窮餓	qióng è	exhausted and hungry
施食	shī shí	to give food (as a charity) / "feeding the hungry ghosts" (Buddhist ceremony)
粮食救济饥民国际协会		Food for the Hungry International
受冻挨饿受凍挨餓	shòu dòng ái è	to go cold and hungry
权欲熏心權慾薰心	quán yù xūn xīn	obsessed by a craving for power / power-hungry	syn
老天爷饿不死瞎家雀老天爺餓不死瞎家雀	lǎo tiān yé è bù sǐ xiā jiā què	lit. heaven won't let the sparrows go hungry (idiom) / fig. don't give up hope / if you tough it out, there will be light at the end of the tunnel
挨饿受冻挨餓受凍	ái è - shòu dòng	(idiom) to go cold and hungry
饥肠辘辘飢腸轆轆	jī cháng - lù lù	(idiom) stomach rumbling with hunger / very hungry	syn

The four tones