| 乞 | [ qǐ ] to beg |
| 乞丐 | [ qǐ gaì ] beggar |
| 乞人 | [ qǐ rén ] beggar |
| 乞伏 | [ qǐ fú ] tribe of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people |
| 乞休 | [ qǐ xiū ] to request permission to resign from an official position (old) |
| 乞兒 | [ qǐ ér ] beggar |
| 乞力馬扎羅山 | [ qǐ lì mǎ zhā luó shān ] Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania |
| 乞和 | [ qǐ hé ] to sue for peace |
| 乞哀告憐 | [ qǐ aī gaò lián ] begging for pity and asking for help (idiom) |
| 乞恕 | [ qǐ shù ] to beg forgiveness |
| 乞憐 | [ qǐ lián ] to beg for pity |
| 乞求 | [ qǐ qiú ] to beg |
| 乞討 | [ qǐ taǒ ] to beg, to go begging |
| 乞貸 | [ qǐ daì ] to beg for a loan |
| 乞食 | [ qǐ shí ] to beg for food |
| ⇒ 吹簫乞食 | [ 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 |
| ⇒ 搖尾乞憐 | [ 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 |
| ⇒ 死乞白賴 | [ sǐ qi baí laì ] to pester someone again and again |
| ⇒ 求乞 | [ qiú qǐ ] to beg |
| ⇒ 行乞 | [ xíng qǐ ] to beg, to ask for alms |
| ⇒ 討乞 | [ taǒ qǐ ] to go begging, to ask for alms |
