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饿
Meaning
- hungry
- to starve (sb)
Example sentence
你饿了吗？
Are you hungry?
The character 饿
饿 is 饣, the food radical, with 我 for the sound: the state that food answers. 我饿了 uses 了 to mean hungry now rather than hungry as a rule, and 饿死了 is the everyday exaggeration.