请安静！孩子们在睡觉。

Be quiet. The kids are asleep.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 请安 qǐngān
  1. to pay respects
  2. to wish good health
  3. in Qing times, a specific form of salutation (see also 打千 dǎqiān)
=1 请安 qǐng'ān
  1. (historical) to pay respect (to someone senior); to salute; to wish well
  2. (of females) placing both hands on the left knee when standing, and slightly lowering oneself by bending the right knee
  3. (of males) half-genuflecting with the right knee, or by
  4. (specifically, historical, during the Ming and Qing dynasties) to salute someone senior by:
  5. half-genuflecting with the right knee, or by
  6. placing both hands on the left knee when standing, and slightly lowering oneself by bending the right knee
  7. to pay respect (to someone senior); to salute; to wish well
  8. to salute someone senior by:
2 静 jìng
  1. still
  2. calm
  3. quiet
  4. not moving
3 孩子们 háizimen children
4 在 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
=5 睡觉 shuìjiào
  1. to go to bed
  2. to sleep
=5 睡觉 shuìjué
  1. (archaic, intransitive) to wake up
  2. to wake up