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请进。

Please come in.
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Practice path

Make this line survive without the page.

Start with the sound, then answer the authored recall prompts for this exact line. No browsing through the whole quiz set.

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Scene

When to use it

Inviting someone into a room, office, apartment, or meeting space.

Risk

safe

Do not use it to invite someone into an online chat; it is physical-space language.

Literal

Please enter.

请进 is short, polite, and extremely useful in daily interactions. It trains learners to hear 请 as a softener.

Examples

Say it inside real sentences.

Run the 4-step recall
01 Please come in and sit.
02 The door is open. Please come in.

Mini dialogue

Hear the social move.

Play both lines, then say the second line without looking.

A May I come in?
B Please come in.

Contrast

Do not blur these together.

01 Come in. Direct.
02 Please come in. Polite.

Recall prompts

Check whether it survived.

01 · What does 请进。 mean?

Answer: Please come in.

请 means please; 进 means enter.

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02 · Fill the pinyin for 请进。

Answer: qǐng jìn

请 is third tone; 进 is fourth tone.

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03 · Which line is polite?

Answer: 请进。

请 makes the invitation polite and normal.

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