饥肠辘辘

飢腸轆轆

jīcháng-lùlù

idiom #26,905

Meanings

HSK 4

他跑了一整天，回家时已经饥肠辘辘。

Tā pǎo le yìzhěngtiān, huí jiā shí yǐjīng jīchánglùlù.

He had been running around all day and came home famished.

HSK 5

孩子们饥肠辘辘地等待午饭。

Háizi men jīchánglùlù de děngdài wǔfàn.

The children waited for lunch with their stomachs rumbling.

memory

饥 = 'hungry,' 肠 = 'intestines/belly,' 辘辘 is onomatopoeia for the rumbling sound of an empty stomach. You can almost hear the growling!

饥 jī

肠 cháng

辘 lù