HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Time

假期 jiàqī “holiday” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 假期 means

  1. holiday
  2. holidays
  3. time off
  4. holiday period

How to say 假期

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale假jià4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale期qī1st tone, high and level

假期 in a sentence

  1. 假期快要结束了。

    Jiàqī kuàiyào jiéshù le.

    The holidays are almost over.

    Sentence #747641 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我假期哪里都没去。

    Wǒ jiàqī nǎlǐ dōu méi qù.

    I didn’t go anywhere during the holidays.

    Sentence #7532558 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 假期过得开心吗？

    Jiàqī guò de kāixīn ma?

    Did you enjoy your holiday?

    Sentence #421843 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 假期 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 假 (jià) with each of its parts in a different colour
假jiàholiday
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 叚false

Memory aidPerson 亻 with 叚 (jiǎ) for the sound: false, fake. Read jià, it means a holiday.

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 假期

假 11 strokes · 期 12 strokes

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

Words related to 假期

Words with 假

请假qǐngjià · to ask for time off放假fàngjià · to have a holiday休假xiūjià · to take leave假jiǎ · false寒假hánjià · winter holidays放暑假fàngshǔjià · to be on summer holidays假装jiǎzhuāng · to feign假设jiǎshè · to suppose假如jiǎrú · if虚假xūjiǎ · false

Words with 期

星期xīngqī · week星期日Xīngqīrì · Sunday星期天Xīngqītiān · Sunday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 & Dates

夏天xiàtiān · summer新年xīnnián · New Year冬天dōngtiān · winter春天chūntiān · spring (season)秋天qiūtiān · autumn半天bàntiān · half a day前天qiántiān · the day before yesterday后天hòutiān · the day after tomorrow

FAQs

假期 (jiàqī) means “holiday” or “holidays”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it jiàqī: jià with a 4th 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. 假期 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiaqi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 假期 from the suggestions. Typing jiaqi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
假期 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older 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.