Friday, January 19, 2024

Amazing Chinese Characters (656) Hungry - 饿

 The big seal script of character Hungry is

The left 


is character Eat (Post 190). 

The right part is character I or Me (Post 654), a tool for ramming, or person who does the ramming work. 

People who did ram in the ancient were poor people, most were slaves, they didn't have enough foods to eat, alway hungry. The character means hungry. 

The small seal script of character Hungry is

The left is Eat, the right is character I or Me, a slave. 

The clerical script of the character Hungry is 
The left is Radical Eat, the right is character I or me. 

The Pinyin of the character is E4.


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