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饑

饑

See also: 饥

Translingual

Han character

饑 (radical 184 食+12, 21 strokes, cangjie input 人戈女戈戈 (OIVII), four-corner 82753, composition ⿰飠幾)

  1. starve, be hungry
  2. famine

References

  • KangXi: page 1425, character 35
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44397
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1951, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4475, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+9951

Chinese

trad. 饑/飢
simp. 饥

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 饑
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 微 (20)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居依切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɨi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kɨi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiəi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɨj/
Li
Rong		 /kiəi/
Wang
Li		 /kĭəi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ke̯i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 饑
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjɨj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kə[j]/
English famine

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 饑
Reading # 1/1
No. 5793
Phonetic
component		 幾
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 機
Old
Chinese		 /*kɯl/

Noun

饑

  1. a year in which harvest is poor; famine; crop failure
  2. Alternative spelling of 飢

Derived terms

References

Japanese

Kanji

饑

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

饑 • ‎(gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

饑 (cơ)

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