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Kanji Detail for 饑 - "starve, famine"

  • Meaning

    饑 means "starve, famine."

    1. Starve - To be hungry; to suffer from hunger.

    2. Famine - For crops to fail.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    hunger; thirst

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    starve, be hungry; famine

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    variant of 飢|饥[ji1]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    famine; to starve, to go hungry

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A famine year. When grain fails, it is called 饑.
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