In modern Chinese 丐 almost always appears in 乞丐 (beggar). The older verbal sense 'to beg for' is now mostly literary or set-phrase.
Components
ideograph
丐gài
beggar; to beg
A four-stroke unitary graph not analyzable into independent parts. It was originally a pictographic abstraction of a person bending to ask for something; the modern shape no longer maps onto recognizable pieces. Indexed under Kangxi #1 一 (one) by tradition, since the top horizontal serves as the lookup stroke.
Filed under radical 一 (yī, #1) by convention. 一 is not a separate component in 丐, so no strokes are highlighted.
