Keyword
hunger
Info
FrequencyTop 1900-2000
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel Pre-2
Heisig1585
Readings
(50%)
かつ
(34%)
(14%)
Composed of
eat a little
desk
Used in vocabulary (29 in total)
to starve; to be famished; to be hungry; to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for
hunger; starvation
starvation; famine; hunger
famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
(death from) starvation; starving to death
to be bloodthirsty
(feeling of) hunger
to hunger for love; to starve for love
to suffer from hunger
hunger and thirst; starvation
starving people
(death from) starvation; starving to death
(death from) starvation; starving to death
famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
Great Famine (Ireland)
hunger and cold
(death from) starvation; starving to death
to starve and freeze to death
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
drought; water shortage
starvation diet; fasting cure; hunger cure; inanition treatment
starving and freezing to death
on the verge of starvation; at the point of starving
(lit.) a starved dog does not fear the rod
Orissa famine of 1866
The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope
Examples (29 in total)
The boy has a hunger for adventure.
The man is starving.
He didn't like to ask for help even if he was starving.