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  • 1

    adj.hungry; starving

    • wǒ bù è

      饿

      I am not hungry.

    • è gǒu dāo le yī kuài gǔ tou

      饿骨头

      The hungry dog bit on a bone.

    • tā è le dàn shì chòu ròu de qì wèi shǐ tā dǎo wèi kou

      饿但是气味使倒胃口

      He was hungry, but the smell of the bad meat put him off.

  • 2

    v.starve; cause to starve

    • è sǐ wǒ le

      饿

      I am starving.

    • bié è zhe dù zi qù shàng bān

      饿肚子上班

      Don't go out to work on an empty stomach.

    • bù guǎn zěn me zhe bù néng děng zhe ái è

      不管怎么不能挨饿

      Anyway, a man would starve while he waited.

Words and phrases with 饿

  • 饿死
    [word]starve to death
  • 饿死鬼
    [word]ghost of a person who died of hunger; ravenous eater
  • 饿饭
    [word]go hungry
  • 饿殍枕藉
    [word]a lot of people died of hunger
  • 饿狼
    [word]greedy person
  • 饿殍
    [word]victim of starvation
  • 饿殍遍野
    [idiom]Fields strewn with corpses of the starved
  • 饿虎扑食
    [idiom]rush at something like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey

Similar-form characters to 饿

Chinese Characters with pinyin è

  • vice; fierce
  • check
  • adversity; be in distress
  • startled; be stunned
  • shocking