餓

Meaning

餓 centers on extreme lack of food or drink: starving, being hungry, or suffering from thirst. It describes a state of severe deprivation.

• 餓鬼がき

  brat; kid; urchin; little devil

• 餓死がし

  (death from) starvation; starving to death

• 飢餓きが
  N1

  starvation; famine; hunger

• 餓狼がろう

  hungry wolf

• 墨は餓鬼に磨らせ、筆は鬼に持たせよすみはがきにすらせ、ふではおににもたせよ

  grind your inkstick gently but move your brush vigorously; let the hungry ghost grind your inkstick, let the ogre hold your brush

• 川施餓鬼かわせがき

  Buddhist services in memory of those drowned in a river; offering to suffering spirits at the river

• 施餓鬼せがき

  service for the benefit of suffering spirits

• 糞餓鬼くそがき

  stupid brat; son of a bitch

• 飢餓感きがかん

  (feeling of) hunger

• 飢餓療法きがりょうほう

  starvation diet; fasting cure; hunger cure; inanition treatment

• 飢餓線上にきがせんじょうに

  on the verge of starvation; at the point of starving

• 餓死寸前がしすんぜん

  being on the verge of starvation; being about to starve

• 餓死者がししゃ

  person who has died from starvation

• 餓莩がひょう

  starvation; (bodies of) the starved

• 餓虎がこ

  starving tiger

• 餓鬼道がきどう

  hungry ghost (preta) realm

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