Xu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Eat (shí) Kangxi Strokes: 16 Page 1420, Entry 08 Pronounced e (falling tone). Yu Pian: To be hungry. Guang Yun: Not full. Book of Rites (Liji), Tan Gong chapter: In the past, when the State of Wei suffered from famine, the Master made porridge and gave it to the hungry people of the state. Note: In Han Feizi, Decorating the Evil chapter: Those who have regular occupations will not go hungry even in times of famine. Huainanzi, Discourses on Mountains chapter: Better to be hungry for a month than to starve for ten days. Based on these, starvation is more severe than hunger. Therefore, Mencius mentions both hunger and starvation when speaking of having nothing to eat in the morning or evening.