HSK 3 · Food

饿 è “hungry” in Chinese

Traditional 餓

What 饿 means

  1. hungry
  2. to starve (sb)

How to say 饿

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

饿 in a sentence

  1. 你饿了吗？

    Nǐ è le ma?

    Are you hungry?

    Sentence #380871 from Tatoeba

  2. 妈妈，我肚子饿了。

    Māma, wǒ dùzi è le.

    Mum, I’m hungry.

    Sentence #4473138 from Tatoeba

  3. 我比刚才饿多了。

    Wǒ bǐ gāngcái è duō le.

    I’m much hungrier than I was a moment ago.

    Sentence #9432367 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 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 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 饿

饿 10 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 饿

Words with 饿

饥饿jī'è · hunger

More words: Food & Drink

肉ròu · meat饱bǎo · eat until full菜单càidān · menu蛋糕dàngāo · cake渴kě · thirsty面包miànbāo · bread啤酒píjiǔ · beer甜tián · sweet

FAQs

饿 (è) means “hungry” or “to starve (sb)”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it è: 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, 饿 is written 餓. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type e with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 饿 from the suggestions. Typing e into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
饿 is an HSK 3 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.