No. 2,025 in Chinese
邀
"Invite."
In a sentence
我邀请朋友来家里吃饭。
I invited a friend to come to my house for dinner.
The word '邀' in this sentence is part of the compound '邀请', which means 'invite', indicating the action of requesting someone's presence.
活动组织者向每个人发出邀约。
The event organizer sent an invitation to everyone.
Here, '邀约' employs '邀' to emphasize an official or formal invitation.
这次旅行他主动提出邀请。
For this trip, he proactively extended an invite.
In this context, '邀请' again combines '邀' with '请', here underlining the act of extending an invitation.
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