Kanji
N1 10 strokes Grade 8 freq #1659

hungry, starve

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

eat shoku

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

starvation; famine
famine; crop failure
starch-based portable ration pill used by ninja and soldiers
starving and freezing to death
(feeling of) hunger
great famine; severe famine
impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests
starving people
hunger and cold
drought; water shortage

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

hunger; starvation
to starve; to be famished
(death from) starvation; starving to death
Tenpō famine (1833-1836); Tempo famine
to hunger for love; to starve for love
Tenmei famine (1782-1787); Temmei famine
Kyōhō famine (1732)
a starved dog does not fear the rod
on the verge of starvation; at the point of starving
to be bloodthirsty

Example sentences

War has produced famine throughout history.

The time when mankind is free from hunger is yet to come.

Hunger is one of the strongest griefs.

Hunger knows no law.