祈

Information about character(s)

Radical: 示
Radical Strokes: 5
Additional Strokes: 4
Total Strokes: 8

Pronunciation

Pinyin: qí, guǐ
Cantonese: kei4
JapaneseKun: INORU INORI
JapaneseOn: KI
Korean: KI

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: pray; entreat, beseech

CE-Dict: to implore/to pray/to request

Soothill: yācñā (याच्ञा). Pray; prayer is spoken of as absent from Hīnayāna, and only known in Mahāyāna, especially in the esoteric sect.

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.(polite) to request
2.to pray

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: pray

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: pray

說文解字 - Shuowen: 《示部》祈求福也。从示斤聲。

康熙字典文字版 【午集下】【示字部】祈
【廣韻】【集韻】【韻會】【正韻】𠀤渠希切，音旂。【說文】求福也。【書·召誥】祈天永命。【詩·小雅】以祈甘雨。　又【爾雅·釋言】叫也。【周禮·春官】大祝掌六祈，以同鬼神示。【註】祈，𡂢也，謂有災變，號呼告於神，以求福。𡂢，音叫。　又報也，告也。【詩·大雅】以祈黃耉。【疏】報養黃耉之老人，酌大斗而嘗之，以告黃耉將養之也。　亦作蘄。【荀子·儒效篇】跨天下而無蘄。　又通圻。【書·酒誥】圻父薄違。【詩·小雅】作祈父。【毛萇曰】祈折畿𠀤同。　又同祁。【書·君牙】冬祁寒。【禮·緇衣】作祈寒。　又【集韻】古委切，音詭。同䃽，祭山名。【周禮·冬官考工記·玉人註】其祈沈以馬。

Buddhism words and phrases pray

CF-Dict: prier/supplier

Han-De-Dict: bitten, erfreuen (u.E.)/Andacht (u.E.) (S)