Radical 饣

10 strokes

餓

food 饣 (288a) + I 我 (32) = hungry 饿

(In the factory canteen the food is late in arriving) “Food, I want food! I’m hungry!” shout the workers. / The dwarf is the ringleader and urges them on.

This simplified form of Character 287 is used when it forms the left-hand part of a composite character.