饿

è

hungry

to starve (sb)

food (饣) + self (我) = I need food: hungry

When food (饣) meets the self (我), it signals that the self is without it — hunger is essentially food's absence felt personally. 我 here is traditionally cited as semantic, reinforcing the idea of one's own bodily need.

+饿
ISemantic
FoodSemantic

Words with 饿

饥饿

jī è

hunger

饱人不知饿人饥

bǎo rén bù zhī è rén jī

The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).

饱汉不知饿汉饥

bǎo hàn bù zhī è hàn jī

The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).

饿死

è sǐ

to starve to death

饿殍

è piǎo

starving people

饿殍载道

è piǎo zài dào

starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine

饿肚子

è dù zi

to go hungry

饿莩

è piǎo

variant of 餓殍|饿殍[e4 piao3]

饿莩载道

è piǎo zài dào

starved corpses fill the roads (idiom); state of famine

饿莩遍野

è piǎo biàn yě

starving people everywhere (idiom); a state of famine

饿虎扑食

è hǔ pū shí

like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey

饿鬼

è guǐ

sb who is always hungry

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