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(xīng qī sì) - Thursday in Mandarin

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Traditional: 星期四

Line drawing of 星期四
Coloured illustration of 星期四
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Translation

Thursday

Stroke order

Stroke order for 星

Stroke order for 期

Stroke order for 四

Examples

I have to hand in my homework on Thursday.

We are going to see a film on Thursday.

Thursday is the last day before the weekend.

He is going back to his home country on Thursday.

The meeting has been changed to Thursday.

星期四 (xīngqī sì) is Thursday: 星期 (xīngqī, "week") plus 四 (sì, "four"), the fourth day of the numbered run.

It works the same as every weekday, needing no preposition to mark time: 星期四我要交作业 (xīngqī sì wǒ yào jiāo zuòyè), "I have to hand in my homework on Thursday".

For a learner listening on the fly, 四 (sì) and 十 (shí, "ten") are the pair worth watching, since a mumbled or fast 星期四 (xīngqī sì) can be mistaken for something else entirely if the final consonant is not caught; slowing the speaker down or asking them to repeat is entirely normal here.

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This word is part of lesson 109.