| 饥 | [ jī ] (bound form) hungry |
| 饥不择食 | [ jī bù zé shí ] when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers, When matters are urgent, don't spend time choosing alternatives. |
| 饥寒交迫 | [ jī hán pò ] beset by hunger and cold (idiom), starving and freezing, in desperate poverty |
| 饥渴 | [ jī kě ] hungry and thirsty, (fig.) to crave (knowledge, love etc) |
| 饥肠辘辘 | [ jī cháng lù lù ] stomach rumbling with hunger |
| 饥饿 | [ jī è ] hunger, starvation, famine |
| 饥 | [ jī ] variant of 飢|饥[ji1] |
| 饥荒 | [ jī huāng ] crop failure, famine, debt, difficulty |
| 饥馑荐臻 | [ jī jǐn jiàn zhēn ] famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs) |
| ⇒ 充饥 | [ chōng jī ] to allay one's hunger |
| ⇒ 充饥止渴 | [ chōng jī zhǐ kě ] to allay one's hunger and slake one's thirst (idiom) |
| ⇒ 啼饥号寒 | [ tí jī haó hán ] hunger cries and cold roars (idiom); wretched poverty |
| ⇒ 如饥似渴 | [ rú jī sì kě ] to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly, to long for sth |
| ⇒ 忍饥挨饿 | [ rěn jī aí è ] starving, famished |
| ⇒ 挨饥抵饿 | [ aí jī dǐ è ] to suffer from hunger |
| ⇒ 易饥症 | [ yì jī zhèng ] bulimia |
| ⇒ 漏脯充饥 | [ loù fǔ chōng jī ] to bury one's head in the sand (idiom) |
| ⇒ 画饼充饥 | [ huà bǐng chōng jī ] lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake, to feed on illusions (idiom) |
| ⇒ 积谷防饥 | [ jī gǔ fáng jī ] storing grain against a famine, to lay sth by for a rainy day, also written 積穀防飢|积谷防饥 |
| ⇒ 饱人不知饿人饥 | [ baǒ rén bù zhī è rén jī ] The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom). |
| ⇒ 饱暖思淫欲，饥寒起盗心 | [ baǒ nuǎn sī yín yù jī hán qǐ daò xīn ] lechery springs from warmth and nourishment, kleptomania springs from hunger and cold (idiom) |
| ⇒ 饱汉不知饿汉饥 | [ baǒ hàn bù zhī è hàn jī ] The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom). |
