飢

See also: 饥

飢 U+98E2, 飢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-98E2 ← 飡 [U+98E1] CJK Unified Ideographs 飣 → [U+98E3]

飢 U+2FA02, 飢 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 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

• Unihan data for U+2FA02

Chinese

trad.		飢
simp.		饥*
alternative forms		饑

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
• Eastern Min (BUC): gĭ
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gi¹ / gui¹
• 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–Macau)
    • Jyutping: gei¹
    • Yale: gēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: géi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kei̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kî
    • Hakka Romanization System: gi^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gi¹
    • Sinological IPA: /ki²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gĭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gi¹
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki⁵⁴⁴/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gui¹
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gui
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kui⁵³³/

Note:

• gi1 - literary (e.g. 飢荒);
• gui1 - vernacular (e.g. 腹飢).

• 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/
Bernhard 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

飢

1. hunger; starving
2. (fossil word or archaic) famine
3. 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.