餓
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See also: 饿
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Translingual
Han character
餓 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人戈竹手戈 (OIHQI), four-corner 83750, composition ⿰飠我)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1420, character 8
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44168
- Dae Jaweon: page 1945, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4456, character 2
- Unihan data for U+9913
Chinese
| trad. | 餓 | |
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| simp. | 饿 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 餓 |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Small seal script |
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋaːls) : semantic 食 + phonetic 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ).
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mwat ~ *ŋ(w)at (“hungry; thirsty”). Cognate with Burmese မွတ် (mwat) and ငတ် (ngat) (STEDT).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): ngo6
- Hakka
- Jin (Wiktionary): ghe3
- Eastern Min (BUC): ngô̤
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 6ngu
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄜˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: è
- Wade–Giles: o4
- Yale: è
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eh
- Palladius: э (e)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ˀɤ⁵¹/
- (Dungan)
- Cyrillic and Wiktionary: вә (və, III)
- Sinological IPA (key): /və⁴⁴/
- (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: ngo6
- Yale: ngoh
- Cantonese Pinyin: ngo6
- Guangdong Romanization: ngo6
- Sinological IPA (key): /ŋɔː²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngo
- Hakka Romanization System: ngo
- Hagfa Pinyim: ngo4
- Sinological IPA: /ŋo⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: ghe3
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /ɣɤ⁴⁵/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: ngô̤
- Sinological IPA (key): /ŋɔ²⁴²/
- (Fuzhou)
- Southern Min
- Wu
- Middle Chinese: ngaH
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋˤaj-s/
- (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːls/
Definitions
餓
Synonyms
- (hungry):
Compounds
- 忍飢挨餓／忍饥挨饿
- 忍饑受餓／忍饥受饿
- 挨餓／挨饿 (ái'è)
- 挨餓受凍／挨饿受冻
- 窮酸餓醋／穷酸饿醋
- 翳桑餓人／翳桑饿人
- 色中餓鬼／色中饿鬼
- 西山餓夫／西山饿夫
- 貧嘴餓舌／贫嘴饿舌
- 飢餓／饥饿 (jī'è)
- 飢餓三十／饥饿三十
- 飢鷹餓虎／饥鹰饿虎
- 餓死／饿死 (èsǐ)
- 餓殍枕藉／饿殍枕借
- 餓殺／饿杀
- 餓漢／饿汉
- 餓狼／饿狼 (èláng)
- 餓獠／饿獠
- 餓答／饿答
- 餓紋／饿纹
- 餓肚子／饿肚子 (è dùzi)
- 餓膈／饿膈
- 餓莩／饿莩 (èpiǎo)
- 餓莩載道／饿莩载道
- 餓虎吞羊／饿虎吞羊
- 餓虎撲羊／饿虎扑羊
- 餓虎撲食／饿虎扑食
- 餓虎撲食／饿虎扑食
- 餓虎擒羊／饿虎擒羊
- 餓虎飢鷹／饿虎饥鹰
- 餓隸／饿隶
- 餓飯／饿饭 (èfàn)
- 餒餓／馁饿
- 餓鬼／饿鬼 (èguǐ)
- 餓鬼道／饿鬼道
Japanese
| Shinjitai | 餓 | |
| Kyūjitai [1] |
餓󠄁 餓+ 󠄁?(Adobe-Japan1) |
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| 餓󠄃 餓+ 󠄃?(Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) | ||
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Kanji
餓
Readings
Compounds
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
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| 餓 |
| が Grade: S |
| on'yomi |
From Middle Chinese 餓 (MC ngaH).
Pronunciation
Affix
References
- ^ “餓”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024
Korean
Hanja
Vietnamese
Han character
餓: Hán Nôm readings: ngạ[1][2][3], nga[1], ngã[2][3]