HSK 3.0 Level 1 · Time

星期天 Xīngqītiān “Sunday” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 星期天 means

  1. Sunday

How to say 星期天

  • 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 first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale天tiān1st tone, high and level

星期天 in a sentence

  1. 我星期天不工作。

    Wǒ Xīngqītiān bù gōngzuò.

    I don’t work on Sundays.

    Sentence #10054241 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 明天是星期天。

    Míngtiān shì Xīngqītiān.

    Tomorrow is Sunday.

    Sentence #409409 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你星期天都做什么？

    Nǐ Xīngqītiān dōu zuò shénme?

    What do you do on Sundays?

    Sentence #870100 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 星期天 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 星期天
  • 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 天 (tiān) with each of its parts in a different colour
天tiānday
  • 一one · yī
  • 大big · dà

Memory aidA person 大 with the sky 一 above: sky, heaven, day.

How to write 星期天

星 9 strokes · 期 12 strokes · 天 4 strokes

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

Words related to 星期天

Words with 星

星期xīngqī · week星期日Xīngqīrì · Sunday明星míngxīng · star零星língxīng · scattered卫星wèixīng · satellite

Words with 期

星期xīngqī · week星期日Xīngqīrì · 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 天

天tiān · day今天jīntiān · today明天míngtiān · tomorrow昨天zuótiān · yesterday天气tiānqì · weather白天báitiān · daytime聊天liáotiān · to chat夏天xiàtiān · summer冬天dōngtiān · winter春天chūntiān · spring (season)

More words: Time & Dates

明年míngnián · next year天tiān · day晚wǎn · evening星期日Xīngqīrì · Sunday早zǎo · early从小cóngxiǎo · from childhood过年guònián · to celebrate the Chinese New Year时shí · o’clock

FAQs

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