The Chinese Radical: 乞


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Meaning
to beg    乞

Explanation Top: horizontal person , below: odd/fine/grade B/2nd 乙 (There lies an oddly nice but second rated beggar.)

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
to eat, to have a meal, to absorb
chī
Left: mouth 口, right: to beg 乞 (There lies [= a lying person 人] a disadvantaged [= from the second 乙 class of society] and begs) (second 乙 = two 二 written quickly)
It's for the mouth when you beg for sth. to eat.
HSK 6
to beg

Top: lying person as a person 人 that is horizontal, below: at 2nd position 乙 (two 二 written quickly without lifting the pen.)
There lies a disadvantaged person (= from the second 乙 class of the society): a beggar.
HSK 6
as yet, until now, to date

Left: movement 辶, right: to beg 乞 (There lies a disadvantaged [from the second 乙=二 class of society] and begs. [ = lying person 人]
(He doesn't think about tomorrow:) The movements of the beggars refer to the: "until now" or the "as yet".
HSK 6
pimple, rash, wart, pustule, swelling of the skin

Left: disease 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick), right: to beg 乞 (There lies a disadvantaged [= from the second 乙 [=two 二] class of society] and begs) [ = lying person 人]
The disease of a lying beggar is: rash.
no HSK
warming principle of the sun, trad. form of dry 干
gān, qián
Left: 倝 sunrise (sun 日 rises between plants 艹) [sunset is: 莫], right: to beg 乞 (There lies a disadvantaged person (= from the second 乙 class of the society): a beggar.)
At sunrise, the horizontal person feels at second position the warming sun.
no HSK
high and steep, to tower

Left: mountain 山, right: to beg 乞 (There lies a disadvantaged [from the second 乙 = 二 class of society] and begs. [ = lying person 人]
The mountain begs that it wants to be: high and steep.

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