time of famine or crop failure

馑 character breakdown

clay / old variant of 僅|仅[jin3] / violet (plant)

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) is throwing violet (堇) clay (堇) and dirt (土) at the king's cow hide (革) in the encampment ((e)n3).
"to eat" or "food" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 184)

Mnemonic symbol: a Chinese cruller.

Sherlock Holmes is eating a Chinese cruller in the space station's entrance. The crane flew by and gave it to him.

Characters with 馑 as component

馑 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 馑

famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)

Sentences with 馑

馑 currently does not appear in any sentence.