粮荒

糧荒
liánghuāng
  1. famine
  2. critical shortage of grain

CEDICT

food shortage; famine

Wiktionary

Entry Composition

1 粮 liáng
  1. grain
  2. food
  3. provisions
  4. agricultural tax paid in grain
2 荒 huāng
  1. desolate
  2. shortage
  3. scarce
  4. out of practice
  5. absurd
  6. uncultivated
  7. to neglect

Related entries

凶荒 xiōnghuāng (literary) famine
灾荒 zāihuāng
  1. natural disaster
  2. famine
饥荒 jīhuāng
  1. crop failure
  2. famine
  3. debt
  4. difficulty
斯蒂芬·奥布莱恩，联合国负责人道主义事务副秘书长兼紧急救济协调员，声称在也门、索马里、南苏丹和尼日利亚，超过2000万人面临饥荒的威胁。

Stephen O'Brien, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, has said that more than 20 million people faced the threat of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.

Source: Tatoeba

饥饿 jīè
  1. hunger
  2. starvation
  3. famine
饥饿促使他偷窃。

Hunger urged him to steal.

Source: Tatoeba

凶 xiōng
  1. vicious
  2. fierce
  3. ominous
  4. inauspicious
  5. famine
  6. variant of 凶 xiōng