Godan verb with 'u' ending (special class), Transitive verb
to beg; to ask; to request; to invite
お腹をすかせている人がいればその人達のために食べ物を乞うた。When she saw that the people were hungry, she begged for food for them. to pray; to wish
Also written 請う【こう】
Characters in this word
1乞
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Dictionary and index codes (18)
| Code | Reference |
|---|---|
| 2-2-1, 2-2-2 | SKIP code |
| 0a3.4 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 8071.7 | Four corner code |
| 2356 | deroo |
| 4e5e | Unicode hex code |
| 1-24-80 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 262 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 59 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 1961 | New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2457 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1707 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 462 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 501 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 170 | Morohashi |
| 1020 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 472 | Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette) |
| qi3 | Pinyin reading |
| geol, gi | Korean reading |