U+98E2 "飢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+98E2 "飢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that primarily means "hunger" or "famine," and it is also used in Japanese as a kanji with the same core meaning of starvation or scarcity of food. This ideograph is composed of two main components: the radical "食" (shoku, meaning "food" or "eat") on the left, and the phonetic element "几" (ji) on the right, which together convey the concept of being deprived of sustenance. Historically and culturally, the character appears in classical texts and idioms describing extreme hunger, such as in the famous Chinese phrase "飢寒交迫" (jī hán jiāo pò), meaning "suffering from hunger and cold." In modern usage, it remains a standard character in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems, as well as in Japanese, where it is read as "ki" in on'yomi and "u(e)ru" in kun'yomi.