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The character "饿", meaning hunger or to be hungry, evolved from its traditional form "餓", which is a phono-semantic compound consisting of the semantic component "食" indicating food and the phonetic component "我" providing pronunciation. This structural logic has been maintained in the simplified version, where the food radical is represented as "饣" while "我" remains unchanged. Historically, the character's meaning has consistently referred to the state of lacking food, and it has not acquired significant additional or divergent meanings over time, remaining narrowly focused on this physical condition.
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我现在饿了。
他工作后很饿。
我饿了，想去吃饭。
早上我没吃饭，所以饿了。
饥饿的感觉很难受。
如果你饿了，就应该吃东西。
他非常饿，几乎走不动了。
尽管他已经饿了很长时间，但他还是决定先完成工作。