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餓 = 食 + 我

餓 is a Japanese kanji written with 15 strokes, listed here under the keyword “starve”. It is built from 食 (eat) and 我 (ego). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 1586.

Keyword
starve
RTK frame
1586
Strokes
15
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
ガ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
う.える
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
голодать
Same glyph as a traditional Chinese hanzi
餓 hungry

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 食 eat
  2. 我 ego

How to find 餓 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “eat” + “ego”. 餓 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

Open 餓 in the interactive kanji search to expand every part down to its smallest pieces, add your own names and mnemonic stories, or search for other characters by their parts.