character
crop failure; famine; a year in which harvest is poor
饑 [－]
Jyutping
gei1
Pinyin
jī
Definitions (CC-CANTO)
hungry/starving/famine/hunger
Definitions (Unihan)
starve, be hungry
famine
Cangjie Input
OIVII
饑 [饥]
Jyutping Pinyin
jī
Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
variant of 飢|饥[ji1]
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
Mandarin
饥饿是最好的调味品。
饑餓是最好的調味品。
jī è shì zuì hǎo de tiáo wèi pǐn 。
Hunger is the best sauce.
Mandarin
这顿饭让他充饥解饿了。
這頓飯讓他充饑解餓了。
zhè dùn fàn ràng tā chōng jī jiě è le 。
The meal satisfied his hunger.
Mandarin
在过去一个相当长的时期里，社会都是等级制度森严并且极度不公的，做为社会阶级中最大一部分的贫农常常被赋税，战争，饥荒压得喘不过气来，痛苦不堪。
在過去一個相當長的時期裏，社會都是等級制度森嚴並且極度不公的，做為社會階級中最大一部分的貧農常常被賦税，戰爭，饑荒壓得喘不過氣來，痛苦不堪。
zài guò qù yí gè xiāng dāng zhǎng de shí qī lǐ ， shè huì dōu shì děng jí zhì dù sēn yán bìng qiě jí dù bù gōng de ， zuò wéi shè huì jiē jí zhōng zuì dà yī bù fen de pín nóng cháng cháng bèi fù shuì ， zhàn zhēng ， jī huāng yā dé chuǎn bu guò qì lái ， tòng kǔ bù kān 。
For a long time, society was strongly hierarchical and unequal, primarily composed of peasants. The most backward, impoverished segment of the population, they were crushed by the weight of taxes, wars, and famines.
Stephen O'Brien, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, has said that more than 20 million people faced the threat of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.