請

See also 请

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Japanese stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 言 (“say”) + phonetic 青

Han character

請 (radical 149 言+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜口手一月 (YRQMB), four-corner 0562₇, composition ⿰言青)

1. ask, request
2. invite
3. please

References

• KangXi: page 1167, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35640
• Dae Jaweon: page 1632, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3981, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8ACB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

請 (simplified 请, Yale ching2)

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Japanese

Japanese stroke order

Kanji

請 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. beg; ask
2. ask; request
3. entertain sincerely
4. (普請) donate to constructing a temple or a shrine
5. receive

Readings

• Go'on: しょう (shō)
• Kan'on: せい (sei)
• Kanyō'on: しん (shin)
• Kun: こう (kou), うける (ukeru), こい (koi)
• Nanori: うけ (uke)

Compounds

請負 請仮 請期 請謁

請寄 請願 請求 請訓

請罪 請室 請属 請託

請祷 請命 請問 請老

References

JIS: 4041 Kuten: 3233 Shift JIS: 90BF EUC-JP: C0C1 Frequency: 524 Nelson: 4390

New Nelson: 5645 Halpern: 1576 Halpern Learners: 1060 Heisig: 1536 Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 7a8.8

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Usage notes

The stroke order in Japanese differs slightly from Chinese, as shown.

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Korean

Hanja

請 (hangeul 청, revised cheong, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏng, Yale cheng)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

請 (simplified 请, pinyin qǐng (qing3), Wade-Giles ch'ing³)

Compounds

• 請柬

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Vietnamese

Han character

請 (thỉnh, thảnh, thín, thinh)