See also: 饿
U+9913, 餓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9913

[U+9912]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9914]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 184, 食+7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人戈竹手戈 (OIHQI), four-corner 83750, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1420, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44168
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1945, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4456, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+9913

Chinese

trad.
simp. 饿

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋaːls): semantic + phonetic (OC *ŋaːlʔ).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mwat ~ *ŋ(w)at (hungry; thirsty). Cognate with Burmese မွတ် (mwat) and ငတ် (ngat) (STEDT).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (31)
Final () (94)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter ngaH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋɑH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋɑH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋɑH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋaH/
Li
Rong
/ŋɑH/
Wang
Li
/ŋɑH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ŋɑH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
è
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ngo6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
è
Middle
Chinese
‹ ngaH ›
Old
Chinese
/*ŋˁaj-s/
English hungry

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 13044
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋaːls/

Definitions

  1. hungry
    饿  ―  è le.  ―  I'm hungry.
    肚子肚子饿  ―  Shéi dùzi è?  ―  Who's hungry?
  2. to starve someone

Synonyms

  • (hungry):

Compounds

  • 忍飢挨餓 / 忍饥挨饿
  • 忍饑受餓 / 忍饥受饿
  • 挨餓 / 挨饿 (ái'è)
  • 挨餓受凍 / 挨饿受冻
  • 窮酸餓醋 / 穷酸饿醋
  • 翳桑餓人 / 翳桑饿人
  • 色中餓鬼 / 色中饿鬼
  • 西山餓夫 / 西山饿夫
  • 貧嘴餓舌 / 贫嘴饿舌
  • 飢餓 / 饥饿 (jī'è)
  • 飢餓三十 / 饥饿三十
  • 飢鷹餓虎 / 饥鹰饿虎
  • 餓死 / 饿死 (èsǐ)
  • 餓殍枕藉 / 饿殍枕借
  • 餓殺 / 饿杀
  • 餓漢 / 饿汉
  • 餓狼 / 饿狼 (èláng)
  • 餓獠 / 饿獠
  • 餓答 / 饿答
  • 餓紋 / 饿纹
  • 餓肚子 / 饿肚子 (è dùzi)
  • 餓膈 / 饿膈
  • 餓莩 / 饿莩 (èpiǎo)
  • 餓莩載道 / 饿莩载道
  • 餓虎吞羊 / 饿虎吞羊
  • 餓虎撲羊 / 饿虎扑羊
  • 餓虎撲食 / 饿虎扑食
  • 餓虎擒羊 / 饿虎擒羊
  • 餓虎飢鷹 / 饿虎饥鹰
  • 餓隸 / 饿隶
  • 餓飯 / 饿饭 (èfàn)
  • 餒餓 / 馁饿
  • 餓鬼 / 饿鬼 (èguǐ)
  • 餓鬼道 / 饿鬼道

Japanese

Shinjitai
Kyūjitai
[1]

餓󠄁
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(Adobe-Japan1)
餓󠄃
+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. hungry

Readings

  • Go-on: (ga, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: (ga, Jōyō)
  • Kun: うえる (ueru, 餓える)かつえる (katsueru, 餓える)

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese (MC ngaH).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɡa̠]

Affix

() • (ga

  1. hungry; hunger

References

  1. ^ ”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

• (a) (hangeul )

  1. hungry
  2. greedy for
  3. hunger

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: ngạ[1][2][3], nga[1], ngã[2][3]

  1. chữ Hán form of ngạ (hunger, hungry)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Trần (2004).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Bonet (1899).
  3. 3.0 3.1 Génibrel (1898).