(xīng qī sì) - Thursday in Mandarin
xīngqīsìTraditional: 星期四
Translation
Thursday
Stroke order
星
期
四
Examples
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I have to hand in my homework on Thursday.
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We are going to see a film on Thursday.
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Thursday is the last day before the weekend.
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He is going back to his home country on Thursday.
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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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