Distinction:
飢 originally “to be hungry.”
饑 originally “famine, crop failure.”
Over time, the two merged in meaning and pronunciation, and 飢 is often treated as the simplified form of 饑.

Phono-semantic compound:
食 (식, food) – semantic component, indicating relation to eating.
幾 (기, how many, few) – phonetic component.
Together: “food + scarcity” → hunger, famine.

饑荒 (기황) — famine, crop failure
饑饉 (기근) — famine, scarcity of food
饑渴 (기갈) — hunger and thirst
饑寒 (기한) — hunger and cold

Characters

Words

Vocabulary

to drink

cooked rice, a meal, to eat a meal

to raise, to nourish

to remain, to be left over, surplus, the rest

house, building, mansion, guest hall, inn, lodging, official residence

to covet, to crave, to be greedy, gluttonous, insatiable appetite

famine, food shortage, time of famine or crop failure

side dish

to starve, to be famished, famine, dearth

to covet, to crave, to be greedy, gluttonous

stuff into the mouth, to gobble up greedily

to disturb, to be noisy, to be troubled

test, examination, to verify, to inspect

to be startled, to be surprised, to be alarmed, to frighten, to scare

post station, relay station (for horses and officials in ancient times), station, stop, terminal

body, shape, form

to fight, to compete, to quarrel

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饑

Etymology

Usage in Korean

Words that derived from 饑

Additional notes

Neighboring characters in the dictionary

References