How to say "starvation" in Japanese

• 飢餓きがCommon
  nounStarvation as a severe condition; it also covers famine, so it is the natural choice when starvation is discussed alongside famine or extreme food shortage, as in a region gripped by famine.
  これらの国くにでは飢餓きがが普通ふつうのことである。↗

  In these countries hunger is the rule.
• 飢えうえCommon
  nounHunger or starvation as the state of lacking food; it ranges from ordinary hunger to outright starvation, and works when you simply mean going without food and being hungry or starving.
  何千なんぜんという人ひとが飢うえで死しんだ。↗

  Thousands of people died of hunger.

Use 飢餓 for starvation as a severe condition, especially where famine is involved, and 「飢え」 for hunger or the state of starving, from ordinary hunger to outright starvation.

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• 飢餓きがstarvation
• 飢えうえhunger
• 干乾しひぼしstarvation
• 飢渇きかつhunger and thirst
• 餓死がし(death from) starvation
• 飢え死にうえじに(death from) starvation