飢

jī

hunger, starving; hungry; a famine

How to write 飢, stroke by stroke

(bound form) hungry; variant of 饥

Pictophonetic: semantic 飠 (food), phonetic 几

Made of 飠 + 几

飢餓jī èhunger; starvation; famine
飢渴jī kěhungry and thirsty; (fig.) to crave (knowledge, love etc)
饑荒jī huāngcrop failure; famine; debt; difficulty
飢腸轆轆jī cháng lù lù(idiom) stomach rumbling with hunger; very hungry
充飢chōng jīto allay one's hunger
易飢症yì jī zhèngbulimia
忍飢挨餓rěn jī ái èstarving; famished
挨飢抵餓ái jī dǐ èto suffer from hunger
積穀防饑jī gǔ fáng jīstoring grain against a famine; to lay sth by for a rainy day; also written 積穀防飢|积谷防饥
饑饉薦臻jī jǐn jiàn zhēnfamine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)
充飢止渴chōng jī zhǐ kěto allay one's hunger and slake one's thirst (idiom)
如飢似渴rú jī sì kěto hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly; to long for sth

你這樣就是畫餅充飢！
nǐ zhè yàng jiù shì huà bǐng chōng jī ！
You're just comforting yourself with a fantasy!
城市裡充滿了飢餓的士兵。
chéng shì lǐ chōng mǎn le jī è dī shì bīng 。
The city was full of starving soldiers.
飢餓的嬰兒只是哭。
jī è de yīng ér zhǐ shì kū 。
The hungry baby did nothing but cry.
你嘗過真正飢餓的滋味嗎？
nǐ cháng guò zhēn zhèng jī è de zī wèi má ？
Do you know what it is like to be really hungry?
他面有飢色
tā miàn yǒu jī sè
He had a hungry look.