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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

饿死

èsǐ

to starve to death

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to starve to death

02

to be very hungry

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 饿死 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 饿死 appears in 22 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我饿死了!wǒ è sǐ le!

I'm starving!

家畜饿死了。jiā chù è sǐ le。

The cattle starved to death.

我快饿死了。wǒ kuài è sǐ le。

I'm starved.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 饿死.

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

Directly before

  • 我饿死3
  • 我快饿死2
  • 老人饿死2
  • 快饿死2
  • 人饿死2

Directly after

  • 饿死了16
  • 饿死胆小1
  • 饿死吗1
  • 饿死呀1
  • 饿死师傅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 饿死

What does 饿死 mean in Chinese?

饿死 (èsǐ) means to starve to death.

How do you pronounce 饿死?

饿死 is pronounced èsǐ.

Is 饿死 an HSK word?

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

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