è
hungry
Simplified form of 餓. Phonosemantic compound. 饣 represents the meaning and 我 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ŋˤaj-s | ngaH | è | hungry |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 29.9856% of movies
1194th most common character in movies
1911th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+997F |
Sources
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