飢餓

See also: 饥饿

Chinese
hungry to be hungry; hungry
trad. (飢餓/饑餓) 飢/饑 餓
simp. (饥饿) 饥 饿

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 飢 餓
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 脂 (15) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III I
Fanqie 居夷切 五个切
Baxter kjij ngaH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kiɪ/ /ŋɑH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ki/ /ŋɑH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kjɪ/ /ŋɑH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ki/ /ŋaH/
Li
Rong		 /ki/ /ŋɑH/
Wang
Li		 /ki/ /ŋɑH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki/ /ŋɑH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jī è
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 gei1 ngo6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 飢 餓
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jī è
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kij › ‹ ngaH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Cə.k<r>ə[j]/ /*ŋˁaj-s/
English hungry 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 餓
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 5757 13044
Phonetic
component		 几 我
Rime
group		 脂 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 飢 餓
Old
Chinese		 /*kril/ /*ŋaːls/

Adjective

飢餓

  1. (formal) hungry; starving
    飢餓和口渴的問題可以拖延一下。 [MSC, trad.]
    饥饿和口渴的问题可以拖延一下。 [MSC, simp.]
    Jī'è hé kǒukě de wèntí kěyǐ tuōyán yīxià. [Pinyin]
    Hunger and thirst can wait.

Derived terms

See also

Japanese
Kanji in this term
飢 餓
き
Grade: S		 が
Grade: S
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
饑餓

Etymology

Middle Chinese 飢餓 (kiɪ ŋɑH)

Pronunciation

Noun

飢(き)餓(が) • (kiga) 

  1. hunger, starvation, famine
    絶(た)え間(ま)ない飢(き)餓(が)、ウラモグ
    Taemanai Kiga, Uramogu
    Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
    • 2016 April 23, “ウラモグの道(みち)滅(ほろ)ぼし [Pathrazer of Ulamog]”, in エルドラージ覚醒 [Eldrazi Awakening], Wizards of the Coast:
      飢(き)餓(が)以(い)外(がい)に思(し)想(そう)無(な)し。破(は)壊(かい)以(い)外(がい)に戦(せん)略(りゃく)無(な)し。
      Kiga igai ni shisō-nashi. Hakai igai ni senryaku-nashi.
      No thought but hunger. No strategy but destruction.
    • 1948, 豊島与志雄, 花ふぶき:
      空腹(くうふく)どころではなく、全(まった)く飢餓(きが)だった。
      Kūfuku dokoro de wa naku, mattaku kiga datta.
      It was not any mere hunger, it was absolute starvation.

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean
Hanja in this term
飢餓

Noun

飢餓 • (gia) (hangeul 기아)

  1. Hanja form? of 기아 (“hunger, starvation”).
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