| Chinese Text Project |
| 饑 U+9951 |  Seal script | 飢 Semantic variant | 饥 Simplified character | 𩚮 Semantic variant | 𩜆 Semantic variant |
| Radical: | 食+ 12 strokes = 21 strokes total. |
|---|---|
| References: | Guangyun: p.65#29 Kangxi: p.1425#35 Cihai: p.1494r5c01 GSR: 547.k Hanyu: v7,p4475#05 |
| Composition: | Left: 飠, right: 幾. |
| Mandarin: | jī qí ㄐㄧ ㄑㄧˊ |
| Cantonese: | gei1 |
| Tang reconstruction: | *giəi |
| Shuowen: | 《食部》饑：穀不孰為饑。从食幾聲。 |
| Guangyun: | 《廣韻·上平聲·微·機》饑：穀不熟。 |
| Kangxi: | 《康熙字典·食部·十二》饑：〔古文〕𩜆𩚮《玉篇》紀衣切，音機。《說文》穀不熟爲饑。从食幾聲。餘詳飢字註。 |
| Fanqie: | 居依 (《廣韻·上平聲·微·機》) |
| Equivalent readings: | 機 (《四書章句集注·論語集注·先進第十一》) |
| Unihan definition: | starve, be hungry; famine |
Example usage
| 《論語·先進》: | 子路率爾而對曰：「千乘之國，攝乎大國之間，加之以師旅，因之以饑饉。」 |
| Zi Lu hastily and lightly replied, "Suppose the case of a state of ten thousand chariots; let it be straitened between other large states; let it be suffering from invading armies; and to this let there be added a famine in corn and in all vegetables" | |
| 《孟子·公孫丑下》: | 凶年饑歲，子之民，老羸轉於溝壑，壯者散而之四方者，幾千人矣。 |
| In bad calamitous years, and years of famine, the old and feeble of your people, who have been found lying in the ditches and water-channels, and the able-bodied, who have been scattered about to the four quarters, have amounted to several thousand. | |
| 《禮記·表記》: | 問人之饑，則食之。 |
| Or men who are suffering from want, he feeds them. | |
| 《墨子·七患》: | 一穀不收謂之饉，二穀不收謂之旱，三穀不收謂之凶，四穀不收謂之餽，五穀不收謂之饑。 |
| Failure of one grain is called dearth; failure of two grains is called scarcity; failure of three grains is called calamity; failure of four grains is called want; and failure of all five grains is called famine. | |
| 《莊子·德充符》: | 仲尼曰：「死生存亡，窮達貧富，賢與不肖，毀譽、饑渴、寒暑，是事之變，命之行也。」 |
| Zhongni replied, 'Death and life, preservation and ruin, failure and success, poverty and wealth, superiority and inferiority, blame and praise, hunger and thirst, cold and heat; these are the changes of circumstances, the operation of our appointed lot.' | |
| 《商君書·墾令》: | 多歲不加樂，則饑歲無裕利。 |
| Having no particular joy over abundant years, they do not make copious profit in years of famine. | |
| 《史記·五帝本紀》: | 舜曰：「棄，黎民始饑，汝后稷播時百穀。」 |
| Shun said, 'Qi, the black-haired people begin to be famished. Do you, Prince Millet, sow in their seasons the various kinds of grain.' | |
| 《詩經·雲漢》: | 天降喪亂、饑饉薦臻。 |
| Famine comes again and again. | |
| 《說苑·君道》: | 有一民饑，則曰此我饑之也。 |
| 《春秋繁露》: | 林父據戚而以畔，宋公殺其世子，魯大饑。 |
| 《韓詩外傳·卷二》: | 得無饑倦乎？ |
| 《大戴禮記·千乘》: | 是故年穀不成，天之饑饉，道無殣者。 |
| 《新書·禮》: | 而有十年之積，雖有凶旱水溢，民無饑饉。 |
| 《新序·節士》: | 齊大饑，黔敖為食於路，以待饑者而食之，有饑者蒙袂接履貿貿然來，黔敖左奉食，右執飲曰：「嗟！」 |
| 《孔子家語》: | 孔子在齊，齊大旱，春饑。 |
| 《潛夫論·志氏姓》: | 是以遭羌兵叛，大水饑饋，而能復之，整平豐穰。 |
| 《論衡·命義》: | 饑饉之歲，餓者滿道。 |
| 《風俗通義·孝文帝》: | 因以年歲穀不登，百姓饑乏，穀糴常至石五百，時不升一錢。 |
| 《申鑒·政體》: | 下有饑民，則上不備膳。 |
| 《忠經·守宰章》: | 寒者衣之，饑者食之。 |
| 《蔡中郎集·青衣賦》: | 思爾念爾，惄焉且饑。 |
| 《列子·黃帝》: | 時其饑飽，達其怒心。 |
| 《鶡冠子·天則》: | 寒者得衣，饑者得食，冤者得理，勞者得息，聖人之所期也。 |
| 《列仙傳·酒客》: | 後百餘歲來，為梁丞，使民益種芋菜，曰：「三年當大饑。」 |
| 《老子河上公章句》: | 民之饑，以其上食稅之多，是以飢。 |
| 《韓非子·飾邪》: | 語曰：「家有常業，雖饑不餓。」 |
| 《慎子·逸文》: | 夏箴曰：小人無兼年之食，遇天饑，妻子非其有也。 |
| 《管子·小問》: | 飄風暴雨為民害，涸旱為民患，年穀不熟，歲饑，糶貸貴，民疾疫。 |
| 《吳子·圖國》: | 吳子曰：「凡兵之所起者有五：一曰爭名，二曰爭利，三曰積德惡，四曰內亂，五曰因饑。」 |
| 《淮南子·齊俗訓》: | 故神農之法曰：「丈夫丁壯而不耕，天下有受其饑者。」 |
| 《呂氏春秋·愛類》: | 神農之教曰：「士有當年而不耕者，則天下或受其饑矣。」 |
| 《尹文子·大道上》: | 楚莊愛細腰，一國皆有饑色。 |
| 《鄧析子·無厚》: | 凶饑之歲，父死於室，子死於戶，而不相怨者，無所顧也。 |
| 《春秋左傳》: | 冬，京師來告饑，公為之請糴於宋，衛，齊，鄭，禮也。 |
| 《逸周書·史記解》: | 宮室破國，昔者有洛氏，宮室無常，池囿廣大，工功日進，以後更前，民不得休，農失其時，饑饉無食，成商伐之，有洛以亡。 |
| 《國語·越語下》: | 若將與之，必因天地之災，又觀其民之饑飽勞逸以參之。 |
| 《晏子春秋》: | 今君，一諸侯無能親也，歲凶年饑，道途死者相望也。 |
| 《越絕書·外傳本事》: | 濕易雨，饑易助。 |
| 《戰國策》: | 王嘉單之善，下令曰：『寡人憂民之饑也，單收而食之。』 |
| 《鹽鐵論·本議》: | 民愨則財用足，民侈則饑寒生。 |
| 《列女傳·秦穆公姬》: | 晉饑，請粟於秦，秦與之。 |
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