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星期 (xīng qī): meaning and stroke order

星期 (xīng qī) means week, 个, day of the week, Sunday.

星期

Simplified
星期
Traditional
星期 (same form)
Pinyin
xīng qī

Stroke order of 星期

星

  • xīng star; heavenly body
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

期

  • qī variant of 期[qi1]; period
  • qī a period of time; phase
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 朞

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 星期

  1. xīng qī
    • week
    • CL:個|个[ge4]
    • day of the week
    • Sunday

Radicals of the characters

星
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 9 strokes · 日 on top, 生 below
期
Radical 月 (Kangxi radical 74) · 12 strokes · 其 on the left, 月 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

星期 in our stories

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  • 第二天，罗丹接到了公司的电话：她可以下个星期来上班了。

    dì-èr tiān Luó Dān jiē dào le gōngsī de diànhuà tā kěyǐ xià gè xīngqī lái shàngbān le

    The next day Luo Dan gets a call from the company: she can start work next week.

    From the story The honest answer HSK 3

  • 白露很生气，一个星期都没跟她说话。

    Bái Lù hěn shēngqì yí gè xīngqī dōu méi gēn tā shuōhuà

    Bai Lu was very angry and didn't speak to her for a whole week.

    From the story That last piece HSK 3

  • 为了这次会议，他准备了整整一个星期，做了三十多页的材料。

    wèile zhè cì huìyì tā zhǔnbèi le zhěngzhěng yí gè xīngqī zuò le sānshí duō yè de cáiliào

    He had spent a whole week preparing for this meeting and made over thirty pages of material.

    From the story Three circles HSK 4

Stories using 星期

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).