飢

飢 — hungry, starve

JLPT: JLPT N1
Strokes: 10
Taught in: Secondary school
Frequency: #1659 most common

Readings

On'yomi came with the character from Chinese; kun'yomi is the native Japanese word it was borrowed for. A dot marks where okurigana takes over, a hyphen marks a prefix or suffix position.

On'yomi: き ki
Kun'yomi: う.える u.eru

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 飢

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