The kanji 餓: meaning, readings and stroke order
餓
- Meaning
- starve, hunger
- On reading
- ガ ga
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 食 eat, food
- Level
- Level 8 · the last years of junior high
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- đói (ngạ)
- Japanese
- ひどく おなかが すく。うえる。
- Korean
- 굶주리다 (아)
- Chinese
- 饿、饥饿 (饿)
Readings, words and example sentences
ガ ga · on reading · less common
飢餓
hunger, famine
世界の 飢餓に ついて 学びます。
We learn about hunger around the world.
Practise writing 餓 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 餓 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 8 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.