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Week in Chinese

week · HSK 1

星期 xīng qī

  1. 星 xīng star
  2. 期 qī period

Counted with 个: 一个星期 yí gè xīngqī

我下个星期去北京。 I'm going to Beijing next week.

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Other ways to say week

More words with 星 or 期

How do you say week in Chinese?

Week in Chinese is 星期 (xīng qī). You can also say 周 (zhōu).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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