乞

Meaning

乞 centers on requesting something from another: begging for help, inviting someone to act, or asking for a favor.

• 乞食こじき
  N1

  beggar

• 乞うこう
  N2

  to beg; to ask; to request; to invite

• 命乞いいのちごい

  begging for one's life; pleading for one's life

• 物乞いものごい

  beggar; begging

• 雨乞いあまごい

  praying for rain

• 一夜乞食いちやこじき

  riches to rags; person turned into a beggar overnight

• 乞い取るこいとる

  to ask for and receive

• 乞い願わくはこいねがわくは

  I pray in earnest that; I beg that; I yearn that

• 乞うご期待こうごきたい

  don't miss it; stay tuned; coming soon; look forward to it

• 乞丐こつがい

  beggar; bum

• 乞士こっし

  bhikkhu (fully ordained Buddhist monk)

• 乞婿こいむこ

  bridegroom who is loved by his bride

• 乞巧奠きっこうでん

  Festival to Plead for Skills (progenitor festival of Tanabata)

• 乞食を三日すればやめられぬこじきをみっかすればやめられぬ

  once a beggar, always a beggar; if one begs for three days, one cannot stop

• 乞食坊主こじきぼうず

  Buddhist monk

• 乞食根性こじきこんじょう

  mercenary spirit; greed; avarice; base nature

• 乞高評こうこうひょう

  with the author's compliments

• 伊勢乞食いせこじき

  beggars at the Ise Grand Shrine

• 慌てる乞食はもらいが少ないあわてるこじきはもらいがすくない

  slow and steady wins the race; there is luck in the last helping

• 暇乞いいとまごい

  leave-taking; (saying) goodbye

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