乞 - beg, invite, ask

beggar

to beg; to ask; to request; to invite

to tender one's resignation

leave-taking; (saying) goodbye

actors; players; riverbank beggars

bhikkhu (fully ordained Buddhist monk)

riches to rags; person turned into a beggar overnight

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

merchants from Ise and Ōmi do not waste their money (unlike Edoites); robbers from Ōmi, beggars from Ise

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

going on an alms round (for food); going begging (for food); going to ask for alms of food; pindacara

to ask for and receive