饿 Stroke Order — How to Write 饿

Stroke Order

饿 is written in 10 strokes, following the standard Chinese stroke order. Start from the radical 饣, then complete the remaining strokes.

Stroke order matters in Chinese: it keeps the character balanced, and it is how dictionaries and handwriting input methods expect a character to be written.

饿 Radical and Character Components

Components:饣我

饿 is an ideographic compound. To want 我 food 饣; 我 also provides the pronunciation.

Radical: 饣 + 7 more strokes

饿 Pronunciation and Pinyin

Meanings of 饿 in Chinese

è饿

Hungry; to be hungry; to starve.

我有点饿了，我们去吃点东西吧。

I'm a bit hungry. Let's go grab something to eat.

To cause (someone or something) to go hungry or starve.

别饿着了，快吃点东西吧

Don't let yourself get hungry, eat something quickly.

Common Words and Phrases with 饿

è饿fàn饭

to go hungry

他们一家人常常饿饭，生活非常艰难

Their family often goes hungry, and their life is very difficult.

è饿guǐ鬼

In Buddhism, a preta; a hungry ghost constantly tormented by extreme hunger and thirst.

在古老的传说中，饿鬼因生前贪婪而受苦。

In ancient legends, hungry ghosts suffer due to the greed they exhibited in their past lives.

è饿hǔ虎pū扑shí食

To pounce on something or someone with the ferocity and speed of a famished tiger.

饥肠辘辘的孩子们一看到妈妈端上来的香喷喷的饭菜，立刻饿虎扑食般冲了过去。

The starving children, upon seeing the delicious food their mother brought, immediately rushed over like hungry tigers pouncing on their prey.

è饿láng狼

A hungry wolf; figuratively, a greedy or rapacious person.

当经理宣布年终奖金时，一些员工表现得像饿狼一样，急切地计算着自己的份额。

When the manager announced the year-end bonuses, some employees behaved like hungry wolves, eagerly calculating their share.

è饿piǎo殍

corpse of a person who starved to death

连年大旱导致庄稼颗粒无收，田间地头随处可见饿殍。

Years of continuous drought led to crop failures, and starved people could be seen everywhere in the fields.

è饿piǎo殍zhěn枕jí藉

The bodies of people who have starved to death are lying everywhere, often piled up, describing a tragic scene of famine.

大旱之后，田地龟裂，粮食颗粒无收，村庄里饿殍枕藉，令人不忍卒睹。

After a severe drought, the fields cracked, and no grain was harvested. In the villages, dead bodies of those who starved to death were lying everywhere, a sight too gruesome to behold.