Character Details
| be hungry (to) | Ascii: 20445 | w1032 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 饿 | è | eugh | 4 | 饣 (food) + 我 (I) → hungry | 饿 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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A person (我) clutching a spoon like a sword, sitting in front of a steaming bowl of rice (饣), eyes wide with desperation. The food glows temptingly, but the person must “battle” their hunger before they can eat. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - I'm hungry | - I'm not hungry, but I'm thirsty | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 187 - 雨 | yǔ | fly | rain | rain cloud | 雨 零 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 饣 (food) + 我 (I) → hungry | 食 (semantic) | 我 (phonetic) | phonetic from 我 | ||||||||