Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- jī
English
- hunger, starving
- (bound form) hungry
- hungry
- a famine
- hunger
粵語
- 肚餓，冇嘢食
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 飢
- 飢餓gei1 ngo6
hunger
- 飢荒gei1 fong1
starvation; famine;
- 飢渴gei1 hot3
hungry and thirsty
- 充飢cung1 gei1
to allay one's hunger
- 飢民gei1 man4
famine refugee
- 餓過飢ngo6 gwo3 gei1
too hungry
- 飢饉gei1 gan2
famine; hunger
- 畫餅充飢waak6 beng2 cung1 gei1
lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake
- 飢不擇食gei1 bat1 zaak6 sik6
when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers
- 飢寒交迫gei1 hon4 gaau1 bik1
beset by hunger and cold (idiom)
- 忍飢挨餓jan2 gei1 aai1 ngo6
starving
- 易飢症ji6 gei1 zing3
bulimia
- 挨飢抵餓ngaai4 gei1 dai2 ngo6
to suffer from hunger
- 如飢似渴jyu4 gei1 ci5 hot3
to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly
- 漏脯充飢lau6 fu2 cung1 gei1
(lit.) to eat rotten meat to assuage hunger (idiom)
- 呻飢莫呻飽san3 gei1 mok6 san3 baau2
lament hunger, not fullness
- 捱飢抵冷ngaai4 gei1 dai2 laang5
- 捱飢抵餓ngaai4 gei1 dai2 ngo6
- 充飢止渴cung1 gei1 zi2 hot3
- 飢腸轆轆gei1 coeng4 luk1 luk1
(idiom) stomach rumbling with hunger; very hungry
- 飽人不知餓人飢baau2 jan4 bat1 zi1 ngo6 jan4 gei1
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
- 飽漢不知餓漢飢baau2 hon3 bat1 zi1 ngo6 hon3 gei1
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).