HSK 3.0 Level 1 · Time

星期日 Xīngqīrì “Sunday” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 星期日 means

  1. Sunday

How to say 星期日

  • 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
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale日rì4th tone, falling

星期日 in a sentence

  1. 今天是星期日。

    Jīntiān shì Xīngqīrì.

    Today is Sunday.

    Sentence #1178260 from Tatoeba

  2. 星期日是我休息的日子。

    Xīngqīrì shì wǒ xiūxi de rìzi.

    Sunday is my day off.

    Sentence #6451962 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 好，星期日火车站见。

    Hǎo, Xīngqīrì huǒchēzhàn jiàn.

    OK, see you at the train station on Sunday.

    Sentence #10961165 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 星期日 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xīngstarXīng in 星期日
  • 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.

The character 日 (rì) with each of its parts in a different colour
日rìsun
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 一one · yī

Memory aidDrawn from the sun.

How to write 星期日

星 9 strokes · 期 12 strokes · 日 4 strokes

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

Words related to 星期日

Words with 星

星期xīngqī · week星期天Xīngqītiān · Sunday明星míngxīng · star零星língxīng · scattered卫星wèixīng · satellite

Words with 期

星期xīngqī · week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

Words with 日

日rì · day生日shēngrì · birthday节日jiérì · holiday工作日gōngzuòrì · working day日记rìjì · diary日历rìlì · calendar日期rìqī · date日子rìzi · day日程rìchéng · schedule日常rìcháng · day-to-day

More words: Time & Dates

今年jīnnián · this year明年míngnián · next year天tiān · day晚wǎn · evening星期天Xīngqītiān · Sunday早zǎo · early从小cóngxiǎo · from childhood过年guònián · to celebrate the Chinese New Year

FAQs

星期日 (Xīngqīrì) means “Sunday”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it Xīngqīrì: Xīng with a 1st tone, then qī with a 1st tone, then rì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 星期日 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xingqiri with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 星期日 from the suggestions. Typing xingqiri into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
星期日 is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 1 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.