He had a hungry look.
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饥
Traditional: 飢 · 饑
jī
jī · gei1 (Jyutping)
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Character breakdown
饥
- Meaning
- hunger, starving; hungry; a famine
- Radical
- 饣
- Strokes
- 5
- Components
- ⿰饣几
- Cangjie
- NVHN
- Four-corner
- 2771
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Example sentences
Thousands of people died of hunger.
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