(qǐng) - please, to invite, to treat in Mandarin

qǐng

Traditional: 請

HSK 1

#112 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

please, to invite, to treat

Word origin

请 (qǐng) is a phono-semantic compound of 讠, the speech radical, and 青 (qīng) as the phonetic. The speech radical fits its meanings 'please', 'to invite' and 'to request'.

Origin: phono-semantic compound
Root: 讠(speech radical) + 青 (qīng, phonetic)

Stroke order

请

Examples

。

Please sit down.

。

Please help me.

。

I will treat you to a meal.

。

Please close the window.

请 (qǐng) means please, to invite, to treat. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

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Appears in 3 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 请.

邀请yāo qǐngto invite; invitation 请问qǐng wènmay I ask, excuse me 请求qǐng qiúto request, to ask, a request

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This word is part of lesson 3.