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饑 means "starve, famine."
Starve - To be hungry; to suffer from hunger.
Famine - For crops to fail.
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
hunger; thirst
starve, be hungry; famine
variant of 飢|饥[ji1]
famine; to starve, to go hungry
A famine year. When grain fails, it is called 饑.
何故かと云うと、この二三年、京都には、地震とか辻風とか火事とか饑饉とか云う災がつづいて起った。
from "Rashomon", by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, original text:Chikuma Bunko, Chikuma Shobo
選んでいれば、築土の下か、道ばたの土の上で、饑死をするばかりである。
from "Rashomon", by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, original text:Chikuma Bunko, Chikuma Shobo
この時、誰かがこの下人に、さっき門の下でこの男が考えていた、饑死をするか盗人になるかと云う問題を、改めて持出したら、恐らく下人は、何の未練もなく、饑死を選んだ事であろう。
from "Rashomon", by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, original text:Chikuma Bunko, Chikuma Shobo
from "Rashomon", by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, original text:Chikuma Bunko, Chikuma Shobo
これとてもやはりせねば、饑死をするじゃて、仕方がなくする事じゃわいの。
from "Rashomon", by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, original text:Chikuma Bunko, Chikuma Shobo
下人は、饑死をするか盗人になるかに、迷わなかったばかりではない。
from "Rashomon", by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, original text:Chikuma Bunko, Chikuma Shobo
その時のこの男の心もちから云えば、饑死などと云う事は、ほとんど、考える事さえ出来ないほど、意識の外に追い出されていた。
from "Rashomon", by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, original text:Chikuma Bunko, Chikuma Shobo
from "Rashomon", by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, original text:Chikuma Bunko, Chikuma Shobo
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