[饥不择食 / 飢不擇食, jī bù zé shí] when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (成语 saw); beggars can't be choosers; When matters are urgent, don't spend time choosing alternatives. #63343

忍饥挨饿

[忍饥挨饿 / 忍飢挨餓, rěn jī ái è] starving; famished #77942

饱汉不知饿汉饥

[饱汉不知饿汉饥 / 飽漢不知餓漢飢, bǎo hàn bù zhī è hàn jī] expr.: those who have plenty cannot understand how the suffering of others #176128

积谷防饥

[积谷防饥 / 積穀防飢, jī gǔ fáng jī] storing grain against a famine; to lay sth by for a rainy day, See Also: 積穀防飢 #219572

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飢饉(P);饑饉;飢きん

[ききん, kikin] (n) famine; drought; shortage; crop failure; (P) #16051

愛に飢える

[あいにうえる, ainiueru] (exp, v1) to hunger for love; to starve for love

餓死(P);飢死に(P);飢死;餓え死に;飢え死に;飢え死

[うえじに(P);がし(餓死)(P);かつえじに(餓え死に);きし(飢死), uejini (P); gashi ( gashi )(P); katsuejini ( katsue shini ); kishi ( ki shi )] (n, vs) (sens) (death from) starvation; starving to death; (P)

飢え(P);餓え;饑え

[うえ, ue] (n) hunger; starvation; (P)

飢える(P);餓える;饑える

[うえる(P);かつえる(飢える;餓える), ueru (P); katsueru ( ue ru ; katsue ru )] (v1, vi) to starve; to thirst; to be hungry; (P)

飢え凍える

[うえこごえる, uekogoeru] (v5r) to starve and freeze to death

飢餓(P);饑餓

[きが, kiga] (n) starvation; famine; hunger; (P)

飢餓感

[きがかん, kigakan] (n) (feeling of) hunger

飢餓線上に

[きがせんじょうに, kigasenjouni] (adv) on the verge of starvation; at the point of starving

飢餓療法

[きがりょうほう, kigaryouhou] (n) inaniation treatment; starvation therapy

飢渇;饑渇

[きかつ, kikatsu] (n, vs) hunger and thirst; starvation

飢寒;饑寒

[きかん, kikan] (n) hunger and cold

飢凍

[きとう, kitou] (n, vs) (obsc) starving and freezing to death

飢民

[きみん, kimin] (n) starving people

血に飢える

[ちにうえる, chiniueru] (exp, v1) to be bloodthirsty

水飢饉

[みずききん, mizukikin] (n) drought; water shortage

大飢饉

[だいききん, daikikin] (n) severe famine

天保の大飢饉

[てんぽうのだいききん, tenpounodaikikin] (n) Great Tempo Famine

豊作飢饉

[ほうさくききん, housakukikin] (n) impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest; decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests

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飢え

[うえ, ue] starvation

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飢える

[うえる, ueru] -hungern

飢きん

[ききん, kikin] Hungersnot, Knappheit, -Not

飢死に

[うえじに, uejini] verhungern

飢渇

[きかつ, kikatsu] Hunger_und_Durst