飢
キ, う.える
hungry, starve
JLPT1 G7 S10 F1659
Effectively a variant form of 饑, combining 几# (tall → tall and lean) + 食 food/eating → long, lean appearance of one suffering from a lack of food (same as for 餓) → *hunger* (for); *starve*.
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