TSUMUGU · TOCFL 1 · 字
餓
ㄜˋ · è
adj — hungry
字源 FORM — what the parts do
IFTwǒ → è — the w falls away; 鵝 é walks the same road
Food (食) is the matter; 我 wǒ gives the sound, the w worn away to è. 食's far side: the meal still out of reach. 肚子餓、餓了.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
飯（食）還在鍋裡，肚子已經叫了兩次。
The rice (食) still in the pot; the stomach has already growled twice.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)飢餓— hunger常用
→肚子餓— hungry — the everyday word常用
⇒餓死了— starving — the everyday exaggeration
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension