饿

è = Ø + e4

to be hungry / hungry / to starve (sb)

饿 = 我 + 饣 : In the elevator's bathroom (e4) I'm (我) listening to a seemingly endless physics lecture by Albert Einstein (Ø). Because I'm hungry (饿) I cannot concentrate at all but can only think of getting a Chinese cruller (饣) once this is over.

饿 character breakdown

饿
- 我
  - 千
    - 丿
    - 十
      - 一
      - 丨
  - 戈
    - 丿
    - 弋
  - 手
- 饣

shí = sh + Ø2

"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.

wǒ = w + o3

I; me; my

我 = 戈 + 手 : I (我) find Willy Walrus (w) lying motionless in the observatory's living room (o3), and there's a dagger-axe (戈) sticking right in his chest. I (我) try to pull it out while wearing a baseball glove (手).

Characters with 饿 as component

饿 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 饿

hunger / starvation / famine

to go hungry / to endure starvation / famished

to suffer from hunger

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fullness for the bold, famine for the timid (idiom)

exhausted and hungry

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

to relieve hunger

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

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

to starve to death / to be very hungry

starving people

starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine

to go hungry / to starve

starving people

starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine

starving people everywhere (idiom); a state of famine

like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey

sb who is always hungry / glutton / (Buddhism) hungry ghost

to go cold and hungry

starving / famished

Sentences with 饿

饿 currently does not appear in any sentence.