饿 (è) means Hungry. Below are 8 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
早上不吃饭很容易 饿 。
Zǎoshang bù chī fàn hěn róngyì è.
If you skip breakfast you get hungry easily.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 饿
我 饿 了，想吃点儿东西。
Wǒ è le, xiǎng chī diǎnr dōngxi.
I'm hungry and want to eat something.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 饿
长时间的饥 饿 让他头晕。
Cháng shíjiān de jī'è ràng tā tóuyūn.
Long hunger made him dizzy.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 饥饿
他很 饿 ，于是买了两个包子。
Tā hěn è, yúshì mǎi le liǎng ge bāozi.
He was hungry, so he bought two steamed buns.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 于是
世界上仍有很多人面临饥 饿 。
Shìjiè shang réng yǒu hěn duō rén miànlín jī'è.
Many people in the world still face hunger.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 饥饿
他 饿 坏了，狼吞虎咽地吃了两碗饭。
Tā è huài le, lángtūnhǔyàn de chī le liǎng wǎn fàn.
He was famished and wolfed down two bowls of rice.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 狼吞虎咽
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Words that contain 饿
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Questions about 饿
How is 饿 used in a sentence?
This page shows 8 sentences using 饿 (è, "Hungry"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 饿 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 饿 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 饿 an HSK word?
Yes — 饿 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 饿?
The dictionary page for 饿 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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