饿
èTraditional: 饿
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Translation
hungry; to starve
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the food radical marking the sense and a phonetic element. It means to be hungry.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 饣 (food) + 我 (wǒ, phonetic)
Stroke order
饿
Examples
。
I am hungry.
。
The child cried from hunger.
。
Do not let yourself go hungry.
，。
He has not eaten all day and is very hungry.
，。
It is cold and I am hungry, truly miserable.
饿 (è) means hungry, or to starve. 我饿了 is the standard way to say I am hungry.
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