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餓

餓

See also: 饿

Translingual

Han character

餓 (radical 184 食+7, 16 strokes, cangjie input 人戈竹手戈 (OIHQI), four-corner 83750, composition ⿰飠我)

References

  • KangXi: page 1420, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44168
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1945, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4456, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+9913

Chinese

trad. 餓
simp. 饿

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (我) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
莪 *ŋaːl
哦 *ŋaːl
娥 *ŋaːl
峨 *ŋaːl
峩 *ŋaːl
鵝 *ŋaːl
俄 *ŋaːl
蛾 *ŋaːl, *ŋralʔ
睋 *ŋaːl
涐 *ŋaːl
誐 *ŋaːl
硪 *ŋaːl, *ŋaːlʔ
我 *ŋaːlʔ
騀 *ŋaːlʔ
餓 *ŋaːls
義 *ŋrals
儀 *ŋral
轙 *ŋral, *ŋralʔ
檥 *ŋral, *ŋralʔ
蟻 *ŋralʔ
艤 *ŋralʔ
礒 *ŋralʔ
羛 *ŋralʔ, *hŋral
議 *ŋrals
犧 *hŋral
曦 *hŋral
羲 *hŋral

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 餓
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 五个切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋɑH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋɑH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋɑH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋaH/
Li
Rong		 /ŋɑH/
Wang
Li		 /ŋɑH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋɑH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 è
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 餓
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 è
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngaH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋˤaj-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 餓
Reading # 1/1
No. 13044
Phonetic
component		 我
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 餓
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋaːls/

Definitions

餓

  1. hungry
    我餓了。 / 我饿了。  ―  Wǒ è le.  ―  I'm hungry.
  2. to starve someone

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 餓 (“hungry”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 飢、餓
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 餓、飢餓
Mandarin Beijing 餓
Taiwan 餓
Tianjin 餓
Harbin 餓
Shenyang 餓
Jinan 餓
Xi'an 飢、餓
Wuhan 餓
Chengdu 餓
Yangzhou 餓
Hefei 餓
Cantonese Guangzhou 肚餓
Hong Kong 肚餓
Taishan 肚飢
Gan Nanchang 餓
Hakka Meixian 肚飢、餓
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 枵
Liudui (S. Sixian) 飢
Hsinchu (Hailu) 枵
Dongshi (Dabu) 枵
Zhuolan (Raoping) 枵
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 枵
Jin Taiyuan 餓
Min Dong Fuzhou 空、枵 dated
Min Nan Quanzhou 枵
Xiamen 枵
Zhangzhou 枵
Taipei 枵
Kaohsiung 枵
Chaozhou 肚困
Wu Suzhou 餓
Wenzhou 餓
Xiang Changsha 餓、䐬
Shuangfeng 肚䐬、餓 intensified

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
  • 餒餓／馁饿
  • 餓死／饿死 (èsǐ)
  • 餓殍枕藉／饿殍枕藉
  • 餓狼／饿狼 (èláng)
  • 餓紋／饿纹
  • 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
  • 餓鬼／饿鬼 (èguǐ)

Japanese

Kanji

餓

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. hungry

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

餓 • ‎(a) (hangeul 아, McCune-Reischauer a, Yale a)

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Vietnamese

Han character

餓 (ngạ, nga)

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