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乞讨

qǐtǎo

to beg; to ask for alms

HSK 8 · Topic “People and society”
A person with a bowl at a street corner receives bread from a passerby
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讨 tǎo

Strokes
5
Radical
讠 — words, speech
Made of
讠 words, speech 寸 inch
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
More about the character 讨

Example phrases

  • 地铁口长期有人乞讨，相关部门需要区分贫困救助与团伙控制。 Dìtiěkǒu chángqī yǒu rén qǐtǎo, xiāngguān bùmén xūyào qūfēn pínkùn jiùzhù yǔ tuánhuǒ kòngzhì. There have long been people begging at the subway entrance, so the relevant departments need to distinguish poverty relief from gang control.
  • 政府为流浪者提供帮助，希望减少街头乞讨现象。 Zhèngfǔ wèi liúlàngzhě tígōng bāngzhù, xīwàng jiǎnshǎo jiētóu qǐtǎo xiànxiàng. The government provides help for homeless people, hoping to reduce begging on the streets.
  • 他小时候跟着奶奶上街乞讨过几次。 Tā xiǎoshíhou gēnzhe nǎinai shàng jiē qǐtǎo guo jǐ cì. When he was a child, he went begging on the street with his grandmother a few times.

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