CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

饥荒

jīhuāng

crop failure

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

crop failure

famine

debt

difficulty

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 饥荒 actually appears in real sentences.

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斯蒂芬·奥布莱恩，联合国负责人道主义事务副秘书长兼紧急救济协调员，声称在也门、索马里、南苏丹和尼日利亚，超过2000万人面临饥荒的威胁。sī dì fēn · ào bù lái ēn， lián hé guó fù zé rén dào zhǔ yì shì wù fù mì shū zhǎng jiān jǐn jí jiù jì xié tiáo yuán， shēng chēng zài yě mén、 suǒ mǎ lǐ、 nán sū dān hé ní rì lì yà， chāo guò 2000 wàn rén miàn lín jī huāng de wēi xié。

Stephen O'Brien, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, has said that more than 20 million people faced the threat of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.

在过去一个相当长的时期里，社会都是等级制度森严并且极度不公的，做为社会阶级中最大一部分的贫农常常被赋税，战争，饥荒压得喘不过气来，痛苦不堪。zài guò qù yí gè xiāng dāng zhǎng de shí qī lǐ， shè huì dōu shì děng jí zhì dù sēn yán bìng qiě jí dù bù gōng de， zuò wèi shè huì jiē jí zhōng zuì dà yī bù fèn de pín nóng cháng cháng bèi fù shuì， zhàn zhēng， jī huāng yā dé chuǎn bù guò qì lái， tòng kǔ bù kān。

For a long time, society was strongly hierarchical and unequal, primarily composed of peasants. The most backward, impoverished segment of the population, they were crushed by the weight of taxes, wars, and famines.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 饥荒.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 饥荒.

Directly before

面临饥荒1

Directly after

饥荒压得1
饥荒的1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 饥荒

What does 饥荒 mean in Chinese?

饥荒 (jīhuāng) means crop failure.

How do you pronounce 饥荒?

饥荒 is pronounced jīhuāng.

Is 饥荒 an HSK word?

饥荒 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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