Pinyin: qǐng

please; to invite

Example sentence

请喝茶。

Qǐng hē chá.

Please have some tea.

What 请 means

(qǐng) is a Chinese word meaning “please; to invite”. It belongs to the Actions & Verbs topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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