yāo qǐng
invitation
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我邀请你去参加我的生日派对。
wǒ yāoqǐng nǐ qù cānjiā wǒ de shēngrì pàiduì.
I invite you to come to my birthday party.
他邀请我去他家吃饭。
tā yāoqǐng wǒ qù tā jiā chīfàn.
He invited me to his house for dinner.
我们邀请你去参加我们的婚礼。
wǒmen yāoqǐng nǐ qù cānjiā wǒmen de hūnlǐ.
We invite you to come to our wedding.
拒绝 (jùjué)
reject
回避 (huìbì)
avoid
The Chinese word 邀请 (yāoqǐng) for "invitation" is composed of two characters: 邀 (yāo) and 请 (qǐng). The character 邀 originally meant "to meet" or "to summon", and it is composed of the radical 讠 (yán), which indicates that it is related to speech, and the phonetic component 邀 (yāo). The character 请 originally meant "to ask" or "to request", and it is composed of the radical 言 (yán), which also indicates that it is related to speech, and the phonetic component 乞 (qǐ). When combined, the two characters 邀 and 请 form the word 邀请, which means "to invite".
