饥荒

Traditional form:

饑荒

Pinyin (reading):

jīhuāng

Definitions:

• crop failure
• famine
• debt
• difficulty

Characters:

• 饥 - hungry, starving; hunger, famine
• 荒 - wasteland, desert; uncultivated

Traditional characters:

• 饑 - famine; to starve, to go hungry
• 荒 - wasteland, desert; uncultivated