Memory phrase for the character: 飢

飢

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Meaning

starve, hunger

Pronunciation

KI
ueru

Explanation

 Left: food 食 (cover on good 良 food), right: var. of table (cf.机,凡)

Mnemonic
 
It's related to food, but the table is empty: I am starving.

Radicals

食 to eatshows a cover and good 良 (It might be helpful to see the lower two strokes as chopsticks.)
凡 common, table




 Vocabulary

飢餓 きが  starvation; famine; hunger
飢える うえる  to starve
飢饉 ききん  famine

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