请 請
Measure word
- 次 cì next in sequence; second; the second (day, time etc); secondary; vice-; sub-; infra-; inferior quality; substandard... attested in use
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 請, the traditional character: 请 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 戰國晚期.晉 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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“我可以用电话吗？”“请便。”
"May I use the phone?" "Please feel free."
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“请把盐递给我。”“拿着。”
"Pass me the salt, please." "Here you are."
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上床睡觉之前请关灯。
Please turn off the light before you go to bed.
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下午请到我办公室来。
Please come to my office in the afternoon.
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不好意思，能请您重复一遍吗？
I beg your pardon?
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不好意思，请问这是什么队伍？
Excuse me, what queue is this?
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今天我来请客。
It's my treat today.
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今天是我请客。
Today is my treat.