饿餓 in English

Measure word

• 只 zhī classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc attested in use

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 餓, the traditional character: 饿 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Small seal script
• Qin bamboo slips 秦

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 世界上许多人在挨饿。

  Many people are suffering from hunger around the world.

• 世界上许多人很饥饿。

  A lot of people are starving in the world.

• 他不会饿死。

  He won't starve.

• 他刚刚才吃完午饭，不可能会肚子饿。

  He cannot be hungry; he has just had lunch.

• 他说他饿了。

  He said that he was hungry.

• 你肚子饿吗？

  Are you hungry?

• 你饿了吗？

  Are you hungry?

• 如果你饿了，为什么不吃饭呢？

  If you're hungry, why don't you eat?

All example sentences with 饿