jī
hunger
Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 几 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 飢
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
hunger | ||
hungry and thirsty | ||
hungry | ||
famine | ||
to allay one's hunger |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.k<r>ə[j] | kij | jī | hungry |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.2081% of movies
2250th most common character in movies
2173rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+98E2 |
Shuowen | “飢，餓也。从食，几聲。” |
Sources
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