飢

See also: 饥

Translingual

Han character

飢 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+2, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人戈竹弓 (OIHN), four-corner 8771₀, 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

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Chinese

trad.		飢
simp.		饥*
alternative forms		饑／饥

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (几) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	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 (ji¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gei¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kî
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ki

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jī
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ji
    • Wade–Giles: chi¹
    • Yale: jī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ji
    • Palladius: цзи (czi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gei¹
    • Yale: gēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: géi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kei̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kî
    • Hakka Romanization System: gi´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gi¹
    • Sinological IPA: /ki²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ki
    • Tâi-lô: ki
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ky
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ki⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ki³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki⁴⁴/

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• 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/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gei1

• 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

(deprecated template usage) 飢

1. hunger; starving
2. (fossil word or archaic) famine
3. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 饑／饥 (“crop failure; famine”).

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.

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Japanese

Kanji

飢

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kun: うえる (ueru, 飢える, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 飢火
• 飢餓
• 飢渇
• 飢饉

Etymology 1

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

Affix

飢(き) • (ki) 

1. hungry; starve

Etymology 2

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

Noun

飢(え) • (e) ^{←ゑ (we)?}

1. (obsolete) Synonym of 飢え (ue, “hunger; starvation”)

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Korean

Hanja

飢 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune–Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 飢 (cơ, ki)

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