HSK 1 · Time

星期 xīngqī “week” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 星期 means

  1. week
  2. day of the week
  3. Sunday

Measure word 个 gè · 一个星期 yí ge xīngqī

How to say 星期

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale星xīng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale期qī1st tone, high and level

星期 in a sentence

  1. 今天星期几？

    Jīntiān xīngqī jǐ?

    What day is it today?

    Sentence #385098 from Tatoeba

  2. 我在医院住了一个星期。

    Wǒ zài yīyuàn zhù le yí ge xīngqī.

    I stayed in hospital for a week.

    Sentence #2338699 from Tatoeba

  3. 他病了一星期。

    Tā bìng le yì xīngqī.

    He has been sick for a week.

    Sentence #407248 from Tatoeba

How 星期 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 星 (xīng) with each of its parts in a different colour
星xīngstar
  • 日sun · rìMeaning part
  • 生life · shēngSound part

日 hints at the meaning (sun); 生 (shēng) hints at the sound. Compare it with xīng.

Memory aidSun 日, here a bright star, with 生 (shēng) for the sound: a star.

The character 期 (qī) with each of its parts in a different colour
期qīperiod
  • 其his · qíSound part
  • 月moon · yuèMeaning part

月 hints at the meaning (moon); 其 (qí) hints at the sound. Compare it with qī.

How to write 星期

星 9 strokes · 期 12 strokes

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

Words related to 星期

Words with 星

星期日Xīngqīrì · Sunday星期天Xīngqītiān · Sunday明星míngxīng · star零星língxīng · scattered卫星wèixīng · satellite

Words with 期

星期日Xīngqīrì · Sunday星期天Xīngqītiān · Sunday假期jiàqī · holiday学期xuéqī · term期间qījiān · period of time日期rìqī · date时期shíqī · period过期guòqī · to be overdue期待qīdài · to look forward to定期dìngqī · regular

More words: Time

上午shàngwǔ · morning (forenoon)时候shíhou · time下午xiàwǔ · afternoon月yuè · month今天jīntiān · today明天míngtiān · tomorrow中午zhōngwǔ · noon昨天zuótiān · yesterday

FAQs

星期 (xīngqī) means “week” or “day of the week”. It is an HSK 1 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it xīngqī: xīng with a 1st tone, then qī with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 星期 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one week is 一个星期 (yí ge xīngqī).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xingqi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 星期 from the suggestions. Typing xingqi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
星期 is an HSK 1 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.