Chinese Character 饿 Meanings and components.

Form

饿

Meaning

饿 meaning[3] in English

To Be Hungry.

Hungry.

To Starve (Sb).

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 饿 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'to eat' or … (饣) , and I (我)

Its radical[1] is: 食 (shi2) which means: To Eat, Food, Animal Feed, Eclipse, .食shi2to eat

In cangjie it is written with NVHQI

How to write 饿

To write饿e4to be … you should write a combination of 饣shi2'to eat' … , 我wo3I arranged in a 吅 shape:

饣 + 我 = 饿

饿 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 饿 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 饿, looks as follow:

饿
Pinyin:e4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Be Hungry . Hungry . To Starve (Sb)
饣
Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: 'To Eat' Or 'Food' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 184)
我
Pinyin:wo3 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: I . Me . My
千
Pinyin:qian1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Thousand
丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]
十
Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: Ten . 10
戈
Pinyin:ge1
Meaning[3]: Surname Ge
弋
Pinyin:yi4
Meaning[3]: To Shoot
丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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