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饿è

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饿

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Shuowen

Hungry. The character combines the food radical饣 (derived from a bowl of food) with 我 as the phonetic element, together expressing a desperate desire for food. In oracle bone inscriptions, this combination already conveyed the sense of severe hunger or starvation. The structure reflects how ancient scribes understood hunger as fundamentally connected to food, with the phonetic component providing the sound while the semantic radical conveys the meaning.

Pinyin

è· HSK 1