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乞食
qǐ​shí

to beg for food

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
乞食 qǐ//shí
to beg for food
(literary) to beg for food from others; to beg for a meal
beggar
(Hokkien/Min Nan) a person who lives by begging

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.147 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 要饭 yào​fàn
  • 乞丐 qǐ​gài
  • 乞食人 qǐ​shí​rén

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)