Character Details
| please | Ascii: 36319 | w464 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 请 | qǐng | tcheeng | 3 | 讠 (speech) + 青 (blue/green) → please | 请 link | ||||||
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You can give someone words to invite them to your party until you are blue in the face, but if they don't want to go they don't want to go. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - Phonetically, 青 → usually “-ing” ending, often q/j initial. | |||||||||||
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| - Please could you speak a little slower | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 149 - 虍 | hū | horn | tiger stripes | tiger‑stripe pattern | 虎 虎 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 讠 (speech) + 青 (blue/green) → please | 讠 (semantic) | 青 (phonetic) | phonetic from 青 | ||||||||