饿

餓

è

adjective HSK 1 #1,021

Meanings

1 hungry

Characters

饣(food) + 我 (wǒ, I) phonetic — I need food

Examples

我饿了。

Wǒ è le.

I'm hungry.

你饿不饿？

Nǐ è bú è?

Are you hungry?

我饿死了！

Wǒ è sǐ le!

I'm starving! (lit. hungry to death)

Tips

grammar

饿死了 (è sǐ le) uses the 'verb + 死了' pattern for exaggeration: 累死了 (exhausted), 热死了 (dying of heat), 忙死了 (insanely busy). Very common in casual speech.

Stroke Order

饿 è