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Mythic Mandarin

请客 (qǐng kè): meaning and stroke order

请客 (qǐng kè) means to give a dinner party, to entertain guests, to invite to dinner.

请客

Simplified
请客
Traditional
請客
Pinyin
qǐng kè

Stroke order of 请客

请

  • qǐng to ask; to invite
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 請

Stroke by stroke

客

  • kè customer; visitor; guest; classifier for servings or portions (when ordering food)
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 请客

  1. qǐng kè Traditional 請客
    • to give a dinner party
    • to entertain guests
    • to invite to dinner

Radicals of the characters

请
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 10 strokes · 讠 on the left, 青 on the right
客
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 9 strokes · 宀 on top, 各 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).