飢

Meaning

飢 centers on a severe lack of food: being hungry or starving. It describes the state of needing nourishment.

• 飢えうえ

  hunger; starvation

• 飢餓きが
  N1

  starvation; famine; hunger

• 飢饉ききん
  N2

  famine; crop failure

• 飢え死にうえじに

  (death from) starvation; starving to death

• 飢えるうえる
  N2

  to starve; to be famished; to be hungry

• 享保の飢饉きょうほうのききん

  Kyōhō famine (1732)

• 大飢饉だいききん

  great famine; severe famine

• 天保の大飢饉てんぽうのだいききん

  Great Tempo Famine

• 天保の飢饉てんぽうのききん

  Tenpō famine (1833-1836); Tempo famine

• 天明の飢饉てんめいのききん

  Tenmei famine (1782-1787); Temmei famine

• 愛に飢えるあいにうえる

  to hunger for love; to starve for love

• 水飢饉みずききん

  drought; water shortage

• 血に飢えるちにうえる

  to be bloodthirsty

• 豊作飢饉ほうさくききん

  impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests

• 飢えたる犬は棒を恐れずうえたるいぬはぼうをおそれず

  a starved dog does not fear the rod

• 飢えに苦しむうえにくるしむ

  to suffer from hunger

• 飢え凍えるうえこごえる

  to starve and freeze to death

• 飢凍きとう

  starving and freezing to death

• 飢寒きかん

  hunger and cold

• 飢民きみん

  starving people

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