HSK 6 · Body

饥饿 jī'è “hunger” in Chinese

Traditional 飢餓

What 饥饿 means

  1. hunger
  2. hungry
  3. starving
  4. starvation
  5. famine

How to say 饥饿

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale饥jī1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale饿è4th tone, falling

饥饿 in a sentence

  1. 饥饿促使他偷窃。

    Jī'è cùshǐ tā tōuqiè.

    Hunger drove him to steal.

    Sentence #510693 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 世界上许多人很饥饿。

    Shìjiè shàng xǔduō rén hěn jī'è.

    Many people in the world are starving.

    Sentence #804796 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 对于一个饥饿的人来说，任何食物都是美味。

    Duìyú yí ge jī'è de rén lái shuō, rènhé shíwù dōu shì měiwèi.

    To a hungry person, any food tastes delicious.

    Sentence #2454746 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 饥饿 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 饥 (jī) with each of its parts in a different colour
饥jīhungry
  • 饣eat form of 食 · shíMeaning part
  • 几table · jīSound part

饣 hints at the meaning (eat); 几 (jī) hints at the sound. Compare it with jī.

The character 饿 (è) with each of its parts in a different colour
饿èhungry
  • 饣eat form of 食 · shí
  • 我I · wǒ

How to write 饥饿

饥 5 strokes · 饿 10 strokes

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饥饿 (jī'è) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 饥饿 (jī'è). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 饥饿

Words with 饿

饿è · hungry

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FAQs

饥饿 (jī’è) means “hunger” or “hungry”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it jī’è: jī with a 1st tone, then è with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 饥饿 is written 飢餓. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jie with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 饥饿 from the suggestions. Typing jie into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
饥饿 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.