starve, hungry, thirst
餓 centers on extreme lack of food or drink: starving, being hungry, or suffering from thirst. It describes a state of severe deprivation.
餓 combines the food radical 飠 with 我, which likely contributes the sound. The character expresses the idea of lacking food and suffering from hunger.
The left side is the food radical 飠, and the right side looks like a person 我. Imagine a person who has no food, so they are starving and hungry.
For ガ, picture a starving person gasping for food: gasping -> ガ, and the hunger makes them gasp.
brat; kid; urchin; little devil
(death from) starvation; starving to death
starvation; famine; hunger
hungry wolf
grind your inkstick gently but move your brush vigorously; let the hungry ghost grind your inkstick, let the ogre hold your brush
Buddhist services in memory of those drowned in a river; offering to suffering spirits at the river
service for the benefit of suffering spirits
stupid brat; son of a bitch
(feeling of) hunger
starvation diet; fasting cure; hunger cure; inanition treatment
on the verge of starvation; at the point of starving
being on the verge of starvation; being about to starve
person who has died from starvation
starvation; (bodies of) the starved
starving tiger
hungry ghost (preta) realm