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ngo6
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[1] hungry; hunger [2] greedy; covetous [3] [v] starve 16 Stroke count: 16
Level: 3
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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| This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44 | ||
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肚餓
tou5 ngo6 = hungry 粵
飢餓
gei1 ngo6 = hungry; starving; to starve; hunger
餓鬼
ngo6 gwai2 = ghoul; (abusive) an overgreedy person
捱餓
ngaai4 ngo6 = starve
挨餓
ngaai4 ngo6 = go hungry; be starved
餓鬼投胎
ngo6 gwai2 tau4 toi1 = to be (very) hungry
窮餓
kung4 ngo6 = exhausted and hungry
餓狗搶屎
ngo6 gau2 coeng2 si2 = to scramble madly for something, even that not worth taking 粵
餓死老婆燻臭屋
ngo6 sei2 lou5 po4 fan1 cau3 uk1 = be unable to earn enough money to get married or sustain a wife when married 粵
餓殍
ngo6 piu5 = corpses of the starved; (dead) bodies of the starved |
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Showing all 2 examples containing 餓
朝早食嗰碗粥稀冧冧，未到晏晝就餓嘅嘞 粵
The bowl of porridge you had this morning was so watery. You will be hungry before noon. Legend 國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese. 粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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Decimal representation of this word: 餓
Unicode code for this character: U+9913 (off-site link)
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Decimal representation of this word: 餓
Unicode code for this character: U+9913 (off-site link)
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