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hunger / starvation / famine
HSK 7-9
starving / famished
HSK 7-9
hungry and thirsty / (fig.) to crave (knowledge, love etc)
when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers / When matters are urgent, don't spend time choosing alternatives.
crop failure / famine / debt / difficulty
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  *饥* | 饥* | *饥
(bound form) hungry
to allay one's hunger
to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly / to long for sth
beset by hunger and cold (idiom) / starving and freezing / in desperate poverty
lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake / to feed on illusions (idiom)
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  *饥* | 饥* | *饥
variant of 飢|饥
hunger cries and cold roars (idiom); wretched poverty
to allay one's hunger and slake one's thirst (idiom)
to suffer from hunger
bulimia
to bury one's head in the sand (idiom)
storing grain against a famine / to lay sth by for a rainy day / also written 積穀防飢|积谷防饥
stomach rumbling with hunger
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
lechery springs from warmth and nourishment, kleptomania springs from hunger and cold (idiom)
The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)


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