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"starvation" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
饥饿 飢餓 jī è hunger / starvation / famine syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
挨饿 挨餓 ái è to go hungry / to endure starvation / famished syn
殍 piǎo (literary) to die of starvation syn
三旬九食 sān xún jiǔ shí lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom) / fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation / in dire straits
罗雀掘鼠 羅雀掘鼠 luó què - jué shǔ lit. to net sparrows and dig out rats (idiom) / fig. to try every possible means of obtaining food (in times of starvation)
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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