Kanji
N1 3 strokes Grade 8 freq #2478

beg, invite, ask

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

second otsu

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

beggar
Buddhist monk
merchants from Ise and Ōmi do not waste their money (unlike Edoites); robbers from Ōmi, beggars from Ise
going on an alms round (for food); going begging (for food)
bhikkhu (fully ordained Buddhist monk)
beggars at the Ise Grand Shrine
riches to rags; person turned into a beggar overnight
mercenary spirit; greed
actors; players
beggar; bum

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to beg; to ask
spending lavishly on the outward journey and having nothing left for the return; going a lord, returning a beggar
to tender one's resignation
don't miss it; stay tuned
beggar
Festival to Plead for Skills (progenitor festival of Tanabata)
to get more than one requests; to beg for water and receive wine
slow and steady wins the race; there is luck in the last helping
once a beggar, always a beggar; if one begs for three days, one cannot stop
beggar; begging

Example sentences

He is rich yet he lives like a beggar.

He is little better than a beggar.

When a man becomes poor, the beggar in him will come out.

A female beggar was begging with five or six children following along.