饑

See also: 饥

饑	U+9951, 饑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9951

← 饐
[U+9950]

CJK Unified Ideographs

饒 →
[U+9952]

Translingual

Han character

饑 (radical 184, 食+12, 21 strokes, cangjie input 人戈女戈戈 (OIVII), four-corner 8275₃, composition ⿰飠幾)

References

KangXi: page 1425, character 35

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44397

Dae Jaweon: page 1951, character 15

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4475, character 5

Unihan data for U+9951

Chinese

trad.		饑
simp.		饥^*
variant forms		飢／饥

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (幾) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
機	*kɯl
譏	*kɯl
嘰	*kɯl
磯	*kɯl
鞿	*kɯl
饑	*kɯl
禨	kɯl, kɯls
幾	kɯl, kɯlʔ, ɡɯl, ɡɯls
鐖	*kɯl
僟	*kɯl
璣	*kɯl
蟣	kɯlʔ, ɡɯl
穖	*kɯlʔ
畿	*ɡɯl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kɯl) : semantic 食 + phonetic 幾 (OC *kɯl, *kɯlʔ, *ɡɯl, *ɡɯls).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jī (ji¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gei¹
Min Nan (POJ): ki

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: jī
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧ
  - Wade–Giles: chih¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ji
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gei¹
  - Yale: gēi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gei¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: géi¹
  - IPA ^(key): /kei̯⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ki
  - Tâi-lô: ki
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ky
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ki⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ki³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ki⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: /kɨi/▼

Rime
Character	饑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	微 (20)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居依切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨi/
Pan Wuyun	/kɨi/
Shao Rongfen	/kiəi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɨj/
Li Rong	/kiəi/
Wang Li	/kĭəi/
Bernard Karlgren	/ke̯i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jī

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*kə[j]/
(Zhengzhang): /*kɯl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	饑
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jī
Middle Chinese	‹ kjɨj ›
Old Chinese	/*kə[j]/
English	famine
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	饑
Reading #	1/1
No.	5793
Phonetic component	幾
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	機
Old Chinese	/*kɯl/

Definitions

饑

crop failure; famine; a year in which harvest is poor
Alternative form of 飢／饥 (“hunger”).

Compounds

饑民／饥民

饑荒／饥荒 (jīhuāng)

饑饉／饥馑 (jījǐn)

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04612

Japanese

Kanji

饑

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): き (ki)

Kun: うえる (ueru)

Korean

Hanja

饑 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune–Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

饑 (cơ)

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