餓

See also: 饿

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 食 + phonetic 我

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

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Chinese

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trad.		餓
simp.		饿

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): è (e⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngo⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): ngo
• Min Nan (POJ): gō
• Wu (WT Romanisation): ngo (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: è
    • Zhuyin: ㄜˋ
    • Wade-Giles: o⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eh
    • IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngo⁶
    • Yale: ngoh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngo⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /ŋɔː²²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngo
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ŋo⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gō
    • Tâi-lô: gō
    • IPA (Taipei): /gə³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /gə²²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: ngo (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /ŋo²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (餓, reconstructed)
Character (餓), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 疑 (31) Final: 歌 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 五个切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ŋɑH/	/ŋɑH/	/ŋɑH/	/ŋɑH/	/ŋaH/	/ŋɑH/	/ŋɑH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (餓, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
餓								è								‹ ngaH ›								/*ŋˤaj-s/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
餓					13044					我					歌					1					餓					/*ŋaːls/

Adjective

餓

1. hungry

   我餓了。 [MSC, trad.]

   我饿了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ è le. [Pinyin]

   I'm hungry.

Verb

餓

1. to starve

See also

• 飢餓／饥饿
• 飢／饥

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

餓

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: が (ga)
• Kun: うえる (ueru)

Compounds

餓鬼 (がき, gaki)

餓死 (がし, gashi)

飢餓 (きが, kiga)

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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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