"Starvation" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 饥饿 | jī è | hunger / starvation / famine |   |
| 挨饿 | ái è | to go hungry / to endure starvation / famished | |
| 殍 |  piǎo | (literary) to die of starvation | |
| 三旬九食 | sān xún jiǔ shí | lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom) / fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation / in dire straits | |
