请
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to ask; to invite; please (do sth); to treat (to a meal etc); to request
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 言 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 請
- Common rank
- #1,167
- Unicode
- U+8BF7
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
invite · Heisig RSH #1210
words + telescope
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 请
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 请进 | "please come in" | |
| 请假 | to request leave of absence | |
| 请问 | Excuse me, may I ask...? | |
| 请坐 | please, have a seat | |
| 不请自来 | to turn up without being invited; unsolicited | |
| 不情之请 | (idiom) (humble expression) my presumptuous request | |
| 请神容易送神难 | it's easier to invite the devil in than to send him away | |
| 请多关照 | please treat me kindly (conventional greeting on first meeting) | |
| 有请 | to request the pleasure of seeing sb; to ask sb in; to ask sb to do sth (e.g. make a speec… | |
| 请安 | to pay respects; to wish good health; in Qing times, a specific form of salutation (see al… | |
| 请将不如激将 | lit. to dispatch a general is not as effective as to excite a general; fig. inciting peopl… | |
| 请假条 | leave of absence request (from work or school) | |
| 报请 | to report, requesting approval; written request for instructions | |
| 请别见怪 | please don't be upset; no hard feelings; absit iniuria verbis; let injury by words be abse… | |
| 请战 | to request to be sent into battle; (by extension) to volunteer for a dangerous or arduous … | |
| 请教 | to ask for guidance; to consult | |
| 回请 | to return an invitation | |
| 声请 | to make a formal request; formal request; to make a claim (law) | |
| 请调 | to request a transfer | |
| 约请 | to invite; to issue an invitation |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 青 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 青 sound part | nature's color; blue, green, black; young | |
| 情 | emotion, feeling, sentiment | |
| 清 | clean, pure; clear, distinct; peaceful | |
| 精 | essence, germ, spirit | |
| 氰 | cyanogen; ethane dinitrile | |
| 睛 | eyeball; pupil | |
| 猜 | to guess, to conjecture, to suppose; to feel | |
| 晴 | clear weather, fine weather | |
| 蜻 | dragonfly | |
| 靓 | ornament; pretty; to apply make-up | |
| 菁 | turnip; a flower of the leek family | |
| 腈 | acrylic | |
| 箐 | to draw a bamboo bow | |
| 鲭 | mackerel | |
| 鼱 | shrew | |
| 圊 | restroom |