HSK 6 · Food

粥 zhōu “porridge” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 粥 means

  1. porridge
  2. congee
  3. gruel

Measure word 碗 wǎn · 一碗粥 yì wǎn zhōu

How to say 粥

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale粥zhōu1st tone, high and level

粥 in a sentence

  1. 我每天早晨吃一碗麦片粥。

    Wǒ měitiān zǎochen chī yì wǎn màipiànzhōu.

    Every morning I eat a bowl of porridge.

    Sentence #1602410 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我一天吃了三次黑米粥！

    Wǒ yì tiān chī le sān cì hēimǐzhōu!

    I had black rice congee three times in one day!

    Sentence #2228159 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 唯有加很多糖才能让我喝得下粥。

    Wéiyǒu jiā hěn duō táng cái néng ràng wǒ hē de xià zhōu.

    The only way I can eat porridge is with lots of sugar.

    Sentence #10650611 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 粥 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 粥 (zhōu) with each of its parts in a different colour
粥zhōucongee
  • 弓bow · gōng
  • 米rice · mǐ
  • 弓bow · gōng

How to write 粥

粥 12 strokes

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粥 (zhōu) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 粥 (zhōu). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 粥

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FAQs

粥 (zhōu) means “porridge” or “congee”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhōu: zhōu with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 粥 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 碗 (wǎn). For example, one porridge is 一碗粥 (yì wǎn zhōu).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhou with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 粥 from the suggestions. Typing zhou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
粥 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.