| 饑 | |||
| starve, be hungry; famine | |||
| Radical | 食飠饣𠋑𩙿𩚀𩚁𩚃 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 12 | Total Strokes | 21 |
| Mandarin reading | jī qí | Cantonese reading | gei1 |
| Japanese on reading | ki | Japanese kun reading | ueru |
| Korean reading | ki | Vietnamese reading | cơ |
| Simplified Variant(s) | 饥 | ||
| Semantic Variant(s) | 飢 | ||
| 饑 | [ jī ] variant of 飢|饥[ji1] |
| 饑荒 | [ jī huāng ] crop failure, famine, debt, difficulty |
| 饑饉薦臻 | [ jī jǐn jiàn zhēn ] famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs) |
| ⇒ 啼饑號寒 | [ tí jī haó hán ] hunger cries and cold roars (idiom); wretched poverty |
| ⇒ 積穀防饑 | [ 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 |