IDENTITY
饿èhungry
HSK 2Top 950
CORE MEANING
hungry
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.hungryHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 饣food radical (shí)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰饣我
- food
- gives the sound è (historical)
USAGE
Common words
饿了è leto be hungry
饥饿jī’èhunger
Graded examples
我饿了，去吃饭吧。Wǒ è le, qù chīfàn ba.HSK2
I’m hungry; let’s go eat.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Food (饣) wanted by me (我) — hunger. (From 餓.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #950
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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