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Mythic Mandarin

星期一 (Xīng qī yī): meaning and stroke order

星期一 (Xīng qī yī) means Monday.

星期一

Simplified
星期一
Traditional
星期一 (same form)
Pinyin
Xīng qī yī

Stroke order of 星期一

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

一

  • yī one; single
  • 1 stroke

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 星期一

  1. Xīng qī yī
    • Monday

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
一
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 1 stroke

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.

星期一 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 学校图书馆最近出了一件怪事：每个星期一早上，还书箱里都会多出一本旧书，书里夹着一朵干花。

    xuéxiào túshūguǎn zuìjìn chū le yí jiàn guàishì měi gè xīngqīyī zǎoshang huánshūxiāng lǐ dōu huì duō chū yì běn jiù shū shū lǐ jiā zhe yì duǒ gān huā

    Something odd had been happening at the university library: every Monday morning there was an extra old book in the return box, with a dried flower pressed inside.

    From the story Flowers in the book return HSK 5

Stories using 星期一

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).