请 (qǐng) means Please (ask - invite - request). Below are 24 of the 95 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
From the graded readers
到了她家门口，她一定要 请 我进去喝茶。
dàole tā jiā ménkǒu, tā yīdìngyào qǐng wǒ jìnqù hē / hè chá.
At her door she insisted I come in for tea.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger
我走过去问他：“ 请 问，火车站怎么走？”
wǒ zǒu guòqù wèn tā:" qǐngwèn, huǒchēzhàn zěnme zǒu?"
I went over and asked, "Excuse me, how do I get to the station?"
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Getting Lost
From the travel phrasebook
请 补发。
Qǐng bǔfā.
Please send the missing items.
Travel phrasebook · Sourcing online (1688 and Alibaba)
From the grammar library
请 说下去。
Qǐng shuō xiàqù.
Please carry on.
Grammar library · HSK 3 · Directional complements — 上来, 下去, 出来
请 给我两杯水。
Qǐng gěi wǒ liǎng bēi shuǐ.
Two glasses of water, please.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 二 vs 两 — two ways to say two
请 给我一张纸。
Qǐng gěi wǒ yì zhāng zhǐ.
Please give me a sheet of paper.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Measure words — the top 25
请 说慢一点儿。
Qǐng shuō màn yìdiǎnr.
Please speak a little more slowly.
Grammar library · HSK 3 · 一点儿 vs 有点儿
请 appears in 95 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 请
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 请
How is 请 used in a sentence?
This page shows 95 sentences using 请 (qǐng, "Please (ask - invite - request)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 请 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 请 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 请 an HSK word?
Yes — 请 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 请?
The dictionary page for 请 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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