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请 — stroke order
Watch how to write 请 (qǐng) stroke by stroke. 请 has 10 strokes and means “to ask”. It appears in common words such as 申请 (to apply for sth) and 邀请 (to invite). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 请
The most common words that use 请 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
申请shēnqǐngto apply for sth邀请yāoqǐngto invite请客qǐngkèto give a dinner party请假qǐngjiàto request leave of absence敬请jìngqǐngplease请求qǐngqiúrequest
How 请 is written
- Radical
- 讠
- Components
- 讠 ＋ 青
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 讠 and a phonetic component 青 (speech).