Kanji1 / 10
飢 kanji
hungry, starve
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
キ
Kun readings
うえる
Words with 飢
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2飢饉Popularfamine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
- —飢餓Popularstarvation; famine; hunger
- —飢渇hunger and thirst; starvation
- —飢寒hunger and cold
- —飢民starving people
- —飢凍starving and freezing to death
- —水飢饉drought; water shortage
- —大飢饉great famine; severe famine
- —飢餓感(feeling of) hunger
- —飢渇丸starch-based portable ration pill used by ninja and soldiers
- —飢餓療法starvation diet; fasting cure; hunger cure; inanition treatment
- —豊作飢饉impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests
- —飢餓線上にon the verge of starvation; at the point of starving
- —享保の飢饉Kyōhō famine (1732)
- —天明の飢饉Tenmei famine (1782-1787); Temmei famine
- —天保の飢饉Tenpō famine (1833-1836); Tempo famine
- —天保の大飢饉Great Tempo Famine
- —飢きんfamine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)