Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- jī
English
- starve, be hungry
- variant of 飢|饥[ji1]
- famine
- hunger
粵語
- 肚餓，冇嘢食
Variants
Words containing 饑
- 饑餓gei1 ngo6
hunger; starvation
- 饑荒gei1 fong1
crop failure
- 充饑cung1 gei1
satisty one's hunger
- 饑渴gei1 hot3
hunger and thirst
- 饑民gei1 man4
famine refugee
- 饑謹gei1 gan2
famine; hunger
- 饑寒gei1 hon4
- 饑寒交迫gei1 hon4 gaau1 bik1
to suffer from hunger and cold; to be poverty-stricken
- 食不充饑sik6 bat1 cung1 gei1
- 積穀防饑zik1 guk1 fong4 gei1
storing grain against a famine
- 饑饉三十gei1 gan2 saam1 sap6
Famine events, localized events of voluntary fasting for 30 or 40 hours depending on the region to raise money and awareness for world hunger.
- 捱饑抵餓ngaai4 gei1 dai2 ngo6
- 啼饑號寒tai4 gei1 hou6 hon4
(idiom) to cry from hunger and cold; to suffer extreme poverty
- 饑饉薦臻gei1 gan2 zin3 zeon1
famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)