饥

(bound form) hungry

variant of 飢|饥[ji1]

small table

almost

how much / how many / several / a few

"to eat" or "food" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 184)

hunger / starvation / famine

hungry and thirsty / (fig.) to crave (knowledge, love etc)

crop failure / famine / debt / difficulty

stomach rumbling with hunger

to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly / to long for sth

beset by hunger and cold (idiom) / starving and freezing / in desperate poverty

to allay one's hunger

lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake / to feed on illusions (idiom)

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.

The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).

lechery springs from warmth and nourishment, kleptomania springs from hunger and cold (idiom)

The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).

famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)

to allay one's hunger and slake one's thirst (idiom)

hunger cries and cold roars (idiom); wretched poverty

starving / famished

to suffer from hunger

bulimia

to bury one's head in the sand (idiom)

storing grain against a famine / to lay sth by for a rainy day / also written 積穀防飢|积谷防饥