# 餓 — Starve

Frequency rank 2169 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Rarer in this ranking, but still part of the 2,608-character published set.

More common than 舶 (Ship), less common than 埃 (Dust).

- On’yomi: が
- Kun’yomi: う
- Radical: 食 Eat (Kangxi 184)
- Frequency path: Level XVII of XX

Eat on the left but only your self on the right — eating nothing but yourself, consumed by hunger, you starve from within.

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