请
qǐng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 請
Please, placed before a verb to make a request polite; as a full verb, to invite or to treat someone. 请坐 'please sit down', 请进 'please come in', 请问 'may I ask'. As a verb: 我请你 'it's my treat', 请朋友吃饭 'to invite friends to a meal'.
Xin mời, xin, làm ơn: đặt trước động từ để lời đề nghị thêm lịch sự; khi là động từ thì nghĩa là mời, đãi. Ví dụ: 请坐 (mời ngồi), 请进 (mời vào), 请问 (xin hỏi, cho hỏi). Làm động từ: 我请你 (để tôi mời), 请朋友吃饭 (mời bạn đi ăn).
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “请” mean?
Please, placed before a verb to make a request polite; as a full verb, to invite or to treat someone. 请坐 'please sit down', 请进 'please come in', 请问 'may I ask'. As a verb: 我请你 'it's my treat', 请朋友吃饭 'to invite friends to a meal'.
Is “请” formal or informal?
请 is generally neutral.