# 飢

| 飢 | U+98E2, &#39138; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-98E2 |
| ← 飡 [U+98E1] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 飣 → [U+98E3] |
| 飢 | U+2FA02, &#195074; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2FA02 |
| ← 𩖶 [U+2FA01] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement | 䬳 → [U+2FA03] |

## Translingual
### Han character

飢 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+2, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人戈竹弓 (OIHN), four-corner 8771$_0$, composition ⿰飠几(GHTJV) or ⿰𩙿几(K))

#### Derived characters

* 㔳, 𠍃

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1416, character 8
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44023
* Dae Jaweon: page 1940, character 9
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4441, character 5
* Unihan data for U+98E2
* Unihan data for U+2FA02

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 肌 | *kril |
| 飢 | *kril |
| 机 | *kril, *krilʔ |
| 虮 | *kril |
| 几 | *krilʔ |
| 麂 | *krilʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kril): semantic 食 + phonetic 几 (OC *krilʔ).

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): jī (ji$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gei$^1$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kî
* Eastern Min (BUC): gĭ
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gi$^1$ / gui$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ki
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: jī
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄧ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: ji
*** Wade–Giles: chi$^1$
*** Yale: jī
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ji
*** Palladius: цзи (czi)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gei$^1$
*** Yale: gēi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gei$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: géi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /kei̯⁵⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kî
*** Hakka Romanization System: gi$^ˊ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: gi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /ki²⁴/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: gĭ
*** Sinological IPA : /ki⁵⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: gi$^1$
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gi
*** Sinological IPA : /ki⁵³³/
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: gui$^1$
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gui
*** Sinological IPA : /kui⁵³³/
* gi1 - literary (e.g. 飢荒);
* gui1 - vernacular (e.g. 腹飢).
* Middle Chinese: kjij
Rime :
| Character | 飢 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (15) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 居夷切 |
| Baxter | kjij |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kiɪ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ki/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kjɪ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ki/ |
| Li Rong | /ki/ |
| Wang Li | /ki/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ki/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | jī |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gei$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.k<r>ə[j]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kril/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 飢 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | jī |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kij › |
| Old Chinese | /*Cə.k<r>ə[j]/ |
| 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 | 飢 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5757 |
| Phonetic component | 几 |
| Rime group | 脂 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 飢 |
| Old Chinese | /*kril/ |

#### Definitions

飢
* hunger; starving
* (fossil word or archaic) famine
* Alternative form of 饑 / 饥 (“crop failure; famine”)

#### Compounds

* 人飢己飢 / 人饥己饥
* 充飢 / 充饥 (chōngjī)
* 啼飢號寒 / 啼饥号寒 (tíjīháohán)
* 失飢傷飽 / 失饥伤饱
* 如飢似渴 / 如饥似渴 (rújīsìkě)
* 己飢己溺 / 己饥己溺
* 忍飢挨餓 / 忍饥挨饿
* 打飢荒 / 打饥荒
* 拉飢荒 / 拉饥荒
* 搪飢 / 搪饥
* 擔飢受凍 / 担饥受冻
* 泌水樂飢 / 泌水乐饥
* 渴飲飢餐 / 渴饮饥餐
* 煮字療飢 / 煮字疗饥
* 畫餅充飢 / 画饼充饥 (huàbǐngchōngjī)
* 療飢 / 疗饥
* 肚飢 / 肚饥
* 號寒啼飢 / 号寒啼饥 (háohántíjī)
* 食不充飢 / 食不充饥
* 飢一頓飽一頓 / 饥一顿饱一顿
* 飢不擇食 / 饥不择食 (jībùzéshí)
* 飢凍交切 / 饥冻交切
* 飢困 / 饥困
* 飢寒 / 饥寒 (jīhán)
* 飢寒交切 / 饥寒交切
* 飢寒交迫 / 饥寒交迫 (jīhánjiāopò)
* 飢民 / 饥民 (jīmín)
* 飢渴 / 饥渴 (jīkě)
* 飢渴交攻 / 饥渴交攻
* 飢渴交迫 / 饥渴交迫
* 飢火 / 饥火
* 飢火中焚 / 饥火中焚
* 飢火燒腸 / 饥火烧肠
* 飢腸 / 饥肠 (jīcháng)
* 飢腸轆轆 / 饥肠辘辘 (jīchánglùlù)
* 飢色 / 饥色 (jīsè)
* 飢荒 / 饥荒 (jīhuāng)
* 飢虎撲食 / 饥虎扑食
* 飢附飽颺 / 饥附饱飏
* 飢餓 / 饥饿 (jī'è)
* 飢餒 / 饥馁 (jīněi)
* 飢餓三十 / 饥饿三十
* 飢餐渴飲 / 饥餐渴饮
* 飢餓線 / 饥饿线 (jī'èxiàn)
* 飢鷹餓虎 / 饥鹰饿虎
* 餓虎飢鷹 / 饿虎饥鹰
* 點飢 / 点饥 (diǎnjī)

#### See also

* 飢餓／饥饿 (jī'è)
* 餓／饿 (è)

#### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04612

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 飢 – see 饑 (“crop failure; famine; a year in which harvest is poor”). (This character is the former (1969–1976) Singaporean simplified and variant form of 饑).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

### References

* “飢”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
* 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “饥 (～饿)”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 163.

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 飢 |
| Kyūjitai | 飢󠄁 飢+&#xE0101; (Adobe-Japan1) |
| Kyūjitai | 飢󠄄 飢+&#xE0104; (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) |
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### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
* Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
* Kun: うえる (ueru, 飢える, Jōyō)

#### Compounds

* 飢火(きか) (kika)
* 飢渇(きかつ) (kikatsu)
* 飢寒(きかん) (kikan)
* 飢餓(きが) (kiga)
* 飢饉(ききん) (kikin)
* 飢凍(きとう) (kitō)
* 飢乏(きぼう) (kibō)
* 飢民(きみん) (kimin)

### Etymology 1

* Kanji in this term
* 飢
* き Grade: S
* on'yomi

#### Affix

飢(き) • (ki)
* hungry; starve

### Etymology 2

* Kanji in this term
* 飢
* え Grade: S
* on'yomi

#### Noun

飢(え) • (e)
* (obsolete) Synonym of 飢え (ue, “hunger; starvation”)

### References

* ↑ “飢”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

## Korean
### Hanja

飢 (eumhun 주릴 기 (juril gi))
* hanja form of 기 (“hunger, starving”)
* hanja form of 기 (“hungry”)
* hanja form of 기 (“famine”)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

飢: Hán Nôm readings: cơ, ki
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