• 飢餓きが — hunger; starvation
• 餓死がし — death from starvation
• 餓うえる — to starve; to be famished
• 餓鬼がき — (orig. Buddhist) a hungry ghost; colloq. brat
• 飢餓きが状態じょうたい — a state of famine

The food radical 飠 signals eating and nourishment, while the phonetic part provides the sound. Together they form 餓, the severe lack of food — “to starve.”