饥

jī

hunger, starving; hungry; a famine

How to write 饥, stroke by stroke

(bound form) hungry; variant of 饥

Pictophonetic: semantic 饣 (food), phonetic 几

Made of 饣 + 几

饥饿jī èhunger; starvation; famine
饥渴jī kěhungry and thirsty; (fig.) to crave (knowledge, love etc)
饥荒jī huāngcrop failure; famine; debt; difficulty
饥肠辘辘jī cháng lù lù(idiom) stomach rumbling with hunger; very hungry
充饥chōng jīto allay one's hunger
易饥症yì jī zhèngbulimia
忍饥挨饿rěn jī ái èstarving; famished
挨饥抵饿ái jī dǐ èto suffer from hunger
积谷防饥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
饥馑荐臻jī jǐn jiàn zhēnfamine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)
充饥止渴chōng jī zhǐ kěto allay one's hunger and slake one's thirst (idiom)
如饥似渴rú jī sì kěto hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly; to long for sth

世界上许多人很饥饿。
shì jiè shàng xǔ duō rén hěn jī è 。
A lot of people are starving in the world.
每年有几百万人死于饥饿。
měi nián yǒu jǐ bǎi wàn rén sǐ yú jī è 。
Millions of people starve to death every year.
我不知道你怎么样，但我饥肠辘辘。
wǒ bù zhī dào nǐ zěn me yàng ， dàn wǒ jī cháng lù lù 。
I don't know about you, but I'm starving.
难民与饥饿作斗争。
nàn mín yǔ jī è zuò dòu zhēng 。
The refugees struggled against hunger.
饥饿促使他偷窃。
jī è cù shǐ tā tōu qiè 。
Hunger urged him to steal.