jī
hunger
Phonosemantic compound. 饣 represents the meaning and 几 represents the sound. Simplified form of 飢.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 饥
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
hunger | ||
hungry and thirsty | ||
hungry | ||
famine | ||
to allay one's hunger |
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 | 5 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9965 |
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