20 strokes
Kentei exam level 1

hunger

Kun'yomi
  • える
On'yomi
  • キン

Main Radical

(KanXi)

Reading Commonality

キン 100.0%

Character Breakdown

hunger
キン う.える (Kentei 1)
the violet (菫) variant
twenty
にじゅう ジュウ ニュウ (Kentei Pre-1)
mouth
くち コウ ク (1st, N4)
life (生) variant

Common Words

famine ②chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest
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References

Unicode hex code 9949
JIS X 0208 1-81-28
Nelson, A. Classic Nelson 5179
Haig, J. New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary 6709
Morohashi Daikanwajiten 44366
Tuttle Dictionary Descriptor Code 8b11.2
Four corner code 8471.4