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Hanzi Character Search: 乞

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乞
beg; request
Radical 𠃉𠃊𠃋𠃌𠃍𠃎𠃑
Strokes (without radical) 2 Total Strokes 3
Mandarin reading Cantonese reading hat1
Japanese on reading kotsu ki Japanese kun reading kou koi
Korean reading kel ki Vietnamese reading khất

CEDICT Entries:

   [ ér ]    beggar
   [ zhā luó shān ]    Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
   [ gaò lián ]    begging for pity and asking for help (idiom)
   [ lián ]    to beg for pity
   [ taǒ ]    to beg, to go begging
   [ daì ]    to beg for a loan
⇒    [ chuī shí ]    to beg while playing the xiao 簫|箫[xiao1] (mouth organ), cf Wu Zixu 伍子胥[Wu3 Zi3 xu1], destitute refugee from Chu 楚[Chu3], busked in Wu town c. 520 BC, then became a powerful politician
⇒    [ yaó weǐ lián ]    lit. to behave like a dog wagging its tail, seeking its master's affection (idiom), fig. to fawn on sb, to bow and scrape, to grovel
⇒    [ qi baí laì ]    to pester someone again and again
⇒    [ taǒ ]    to go begging, to ask for alms

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