请

to ask / to invite / please (do sth) / to treat (to a meal etc) / to request

"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

abbr. for 青海[Qing1 hai3], Qinghai Province

green / blue / black / youth / young (of people)

to request the pleasure of seeing sb / to ask sb in / to ask sb to do sth (e.g. make a speech)

please (do sth) (deferential form)

to request earnestly

to propose

to entertain (for dinner) / to invite to dinner

to return an invitation

to urge

to submit (to superiors)

to implore / to entreat

to request / to call for

to make a formal request / formal request / to make a claim (law)

to coax and plead

my presumptuous request (humble expr.); if I may be so bold to ask a favor

to turn up without being invited / unsolicited

please (formal)

please find sb better qualified than me (idiom)

to be a guest at a dinner party / to be wined and dined (as a bribe)

to report, requesting approval / written request for instructions

to employ / to send for sb promising employment

to recruit / to take on (an employee)