请

See also 請

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Simplified from 請 (言 → 讠)

Han character

请 (radical 149 讠+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈女手一月 (IVQMB), composition ⿰讠青)

1. ask, request
2. invite
3. please

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1188, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3981, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8BF7

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Cantonese

Hanzi

请 (traditional 請, Yale ching2)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

请 (traditional 請, pinyin qīng (qing1), qíng (qing2), qǐng (qing3), qìng (qing4), Wade-Giles ch'ing¹, ch'ing², ch'ing³, ch'ing⁴)

Verb

请 (simplified, Pinyin qǐng, traditional 請)

1. to ask; to invite; please (may I?); to treat (to a meal etc); to request