饿 è▶ đói

Stroke order

饿 is written in 10 strokes.

• 饿

Senses

1. hungry
2. to starve (sb)

Example sentences

• 我很饿。Wǒ hěn è.I am very hungry.
• 你饿了吗？Nǐ è le ma?Are you hungry?

Related words

• 饥饿đói, nạn đói

饿 is pronounced è and means “đói”. It belongs to the HSK 3 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 饿 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.