| 乞儿 | [ qǐ ér ] beggar |
| 乞力马扎罗山 | [ qǐ lì mǎ zhā luó shān ] Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania |
| 乞哀告怜 | [ qǐ aī gaò lián ] begging for pity and asking for help (idiom) |
| 乞怜 | [ qǐ lián ] to beg for pity |
| 乞讨 | [ qǐ taǒ ] to beg, to go begging |
| 乞贷 | [ qǐ daì ] to beg for a loan |
| ⇒ 吹箫乞食 | [ chuī qǐ 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 |
| ⇒ 摇尾乞怜 | [ yaó weǐ qǐ 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 |
| ⇒ 死乞白赖 | [ sǐ qi baí laì ] to pester someone again and again |
| ⇒ 讨乞 | [ taǒ qǐ ] to go begging, to ask for alms |
