拼音
- qǐng (third tone, dipping)
please; to ask, to request; to invite; to treat someone (to a meal)
字形拆解
Ideographic description
⿰讠青The sequence reads left to right and describes how the parts are arranged.
- 讠meaning partno entry yetThe speech radical, the compressed form of 言: a request is made in words.
- 青sound partno entry yet青 qīng is here for its sound, not its meaning; the same phonetic runs through 清 qīng, 情 qíng and 晴 qíng.
Mnemonic
Words 讠 next to 青 qīng, which is present for the sound alone (qīng → qǐng). Everything 请 does, it does with the mouth: 请进 invites someone in, 请问 opens a question politely, 请客 means picking up the bill. Learn it together with 清 "clear" and 晴 "fine weather" — one phonetic, three radicals.
A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.
含“请”的词
部首 言 — other characters
- 说說shuō (first tone, high and level)to speak, to say, to talk; to explain; to tell off (colloquial)
- 认認rèn (fourth tone, falling)to recognise, to identify; to admit, to acknowledge; to accept as inevitable
- 语語yǔ (third tone, dipping)language, tongue; speech, words; a saying
- 让讓ràng (fourth tone, falling)to let, to allow; to make or cause someone to do something; to yield, to give way, to give up a seat
- 记記jì (fourth tone, falling)to record, to write down; to remember, to bear in mind; a note, an account; a mark
- 话話huà (fourth tone, falling)speech, words, what is said; a language or dialect; to talk about
- 识識shí (second tone, rising) zhì (fourth tone, falling)to know, to recognise; knowledge; (zhì) to record, an inscription
- 读讀dú (second tone, rising)to read; to read aloud; to study, to attend school
- 谢謝xiè (fourth tone, falling)to thank; thanks; (of flowers) to wither, to fade; Xie, a common surname