餓 — starve, hungry, thirst

が餓 starve

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U+9913 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1754 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1586 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

starve
hungry
thirst

Readings

On'yomi: が ga
Kun'yomi: う u

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が ga On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

飢(き) 餓(が) kiga starvation 餓(が) 死(し) gashi (death from) starvation

Words by frequency and grade

2 words

Each dot is a word containing 餓: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 1 word has no frequency rank; it sits in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

飠 food (left form)

われ我 ego

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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