乞
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to beg
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 乙 +2
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 乞
- Common rank
- #2,406
- Unicode
- U+4E5E
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 乞 is formed
How to remember it
beg · Heisig RSH #470
lying (down) + hook
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 乞
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乞力马扎罗山 | Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania | |
| 死乞白赖 | to pester someone again and again | |
| 乞人 | beggar | |
| 乞儿 | beggar | |
| 行乞 | to beg; to ask for alms | |
| 乞和 | to sue for peace | |
| 乞食 | to beg for food | |
| 乞求 | to beg | |
| 求乞 | to beg | |
| 摇尾乞怜 | lit. to behave like a dog wagging its tail, seeking its master's affection (idiom); fig. t… | |
| 乞伏 | tribe of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people | |
| 乞哀告怜 | begging for pity and asking for help (idiom) | |
| 乞休 | to request permission to resign from an official position (old) | |
| 乞讨 | to beg; to go begging | |
| 讨乞 | to go begging; to ask for alms | |
| 吹箫乞食 | see 吳市吹簫|吴市吹箫[wu2 shi4 chui1 xiao1] | |
| 乞贷 | to beg for a loan | |
| 乞怜 | to beg for pity | |
| 乞恕 | to beg forgiveness | |
| 乞丐 | beggar |
Sound family
These characters use 乞 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乞 sound part | to beg; to request | |
| 吃 | to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear | |
| 疙 | pimple, sore; wart, pustule | |
| 讫 | to finish, to conclude; to exhaust | |
| 迄 | to extend, to reach; till, until | |
| 矻 | busy; to toil, to slave away | |
| 屹 | to rise, to stand tall | |
| 虼 | flea | |
| 圪 | (phonetic) | |
| 扢 | to clean, to rub | |
| 汔 | nearby |