jī
starve
Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 幾 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 饑
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
hunger | ||
hungry and thirsty | ||
hungry | ||
famine | ||
to allay one's hunger |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kə[j] | kj+j | jī | famine |
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 | 20 |
Unicode | U+9951 |
Shuowen | “饑，穀不孰為饑。从食，幾聲。” |
Sources
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