音読み: キ
訓読み: いのる
画数: 8
部首: 礻（しめすへん）
Meaning
Pray / wish.
- Basic forms
- 祈る — pray; wish / base form
- 祈ります — pray; wish / masu form
- 祈った — prayed; wished / ta form
- 祈って — praying … / te form
- 祈らない — do not pray / negative
- 祈れば — if (one) prays / conditional
- Common expressions
- 成功を祈る — pray for success
- 無事を祈ってね — please pray for my safety
- 回復を祈った — prayed for recovery
- More
- 祈ってた — was praying; was wishing / state
祈る（いのる） is a godan transitive verb. It expresses praying or wishing sincerely for a desired outcome, and is used in both religious and everyday contexts.
- 祈る — to pray; to wish
- 祈願 — prayer; petition
- 祈念 — prayer; wish
- 祈年 — yearly prayers (for harvest)
The radical しめすへん（礻） means altar or divine sign. Combined with the phonetic component (斤), it conveys the act of offering prayers or making wishes to the gods. That’s why 祈 means “to pray” or “to wish.”