How to Say "Please sit down" in Chinese (Mandarin): 请坐。

The characters in 请坐。

• 请 / 請

  Please; also to invite. 讠 (speech) is on the left.

• 坐

  To sit. Two people (人) on the ground (土).

  7 strokes

请 at the start makes a request polite: 请进 (qǐng jìn) is "please come in" and 请喝茶 is "please have some tea".

More examples with 请坐。

• 请进，请坐。

  請進，請坐。

  Qǐng jìn, qǐng zuò.

  Please come in and sit down.

• 请坐在这里。

  請坐在這裡。

  Qǐng zuò zài zhèlǐ.

  Please sit here.