EntryCommonJLPT N2WaniKani 48
  1. Ichidan verb, Intransitive verb

    to starve; to be famished; to be hungry

    彼は飢えた者に食を与えた。
    He furnished food to the hungry.
  2. to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for

Also written 餓える【うえる】饑える【うえる】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

hungry, starve

Kun
う.える
On
Strokes
10
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N1
Frequency
1659 of 2500
Radical
eat
WaniKani
Level 48

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Dictionary and index codes (29)
CodeReference
1-8-2SKIP code
8b2.1The Kanji Dictionary
8771.0Four corner code
2857deroo
98e2Unicode hex code
1-21-18JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5155Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6675New Nelson (John Haig)
1668New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2101Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1093Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1490Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1475Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1585Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1947A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1717Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
44023PMorohashi
1127A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1304Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1383Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1903Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1404Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1346Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1902Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1487Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
ji1Pinyin reading
giKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
48WaniKani level