(xīng qī) - week, day of the week in Mandarin
xīngqīTraditional: 星期
Translation
week, day of the week
Word origin
A two-character compound meaning week. 星 (xīng) 'star' has the 日 'sun' radical with 生 (shēng) as phonetic, and 期 (qī) 'period, term' has the 月 'moon' radical with 其 (qí) as phonetic.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 星 (xīng, 'star'; 日 sun radical + 生 phonetic) + 期 (qī, 'period'; 月 moon radical + 其 phonetic)
Stroke order
星
期
Examples
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What day of the week is today?
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I go swimming every week.
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I will be back next week.
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Next week we are going travelling.
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This week has been busy.
星期 (xīng qī) means week, day of the week. It is used as a noun in everyday Mandarin speech.
Used in
Grammar articles
(5)Mandarin Classifiers (Measure Words): 个, 本, 张, 只, 条, and the Rule That Every Counted Noun Needs One
The Mandarin Copula 是 (shì): To Be, and When to Leave It Out
Duration Complements in Mandarin (时量补语): How to Say How Long an Action Lasts
Mandarin Numbers, Time, Dates, and Currency: From 1 to 1,000,000, the 二/两 Split, and Time-Before-Verb
Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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