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星期二xīng qī èr
Tuesday
Definitions
| Chinese > English | ||
| 星期二 | xīng期'èr | |
| 1. n. Tuesday | ||
| Chinese > Chinese | ||
| 星期二 | ||
| 1. 名词. 星期二 | ||
| 2. 名词. 一個星期的第三天 | ||
| English > Chinese | ||
| Tuesday | ||
| 1. 名词. 星期二 | ||
| Components | ||
| 星 | Xīng | |
| 1. transliteration of Indian name Singh | ||
| 期 | qī, qí | |
| 1. to arrange a time; to engage; to arrange to meet | ||
| 不期而遇 - to meet unexpectedly or by chance | ||
| 2. (literary) to meet; to gather | ||
| 3. to hope; to wish; to expect | ||
| 期待 - to look forward to | ||
| 未來 可 期 | ||
| 4. date; specific day; scheduled time | ||
| 限期 - deadline | ||
| 5. (Cantonese) time slots; schedule | ||
| 我 今個 月 啲 期 全部 爆 嗮。 - All my time slots are filled this month. | ||
| 6. period of time; stage | ||
| 學期 - semester | ||
| 青春期 - adolescence | ||
| 7. (geology) age (geochronologic unit) | ||
| 8. (obsolete) undoubtedly; certainly | ||
| 9. (obsolete) limit | ||
| 10. (obsolete) good fortune; chance | ||
| 11. (obsolete) one-year anniversary | ||
| 12. (historical, obsolete) one-year mourning (garment) for the death of a senior family member | ||
| 二 | èr | |
| 1. two | ||
| 二 號 線 (èr hào xiàn) - line no. 2 | ||
| 2. second | ||
| 二哥 - second elder brother | ||
| 二意 - tr=èryì - | ||
| 二心 - tr=èrxīn - | ||
| 3. (handwritten, dated, now, informal) (An iteration mark denoting the repetition of the previous hanzi; often written at a smaller size when used for this purpose.) | ||
| Synonyms: 々, 〻 | ||
| 4. Short for "twenty, two hundred or two thousand" after hundreds, thousands and ten thousands. | ||
| ※ (Such a definition of a number results from a number's being used without a unit after a quantity with both a value (exists even if hidden) and a unit to indicate the quantity with the value | ||
| 百 二 - one hundred twenty | ||
| 百 二 (pah jī) - one hundred twenty, MN | ||
| 買 電腦 花 了 一 千 二。 (Mǎi diànnǎo huā le yī qiān èr.) - Buying the computer cost me a thousand and two hundred bucks. | ||
| 5. Short for "twenty cents". | ||
| 黃瓜 一 塊 二 一 斤。 (Huángguā yī kuài èr yī jīn.) - The cucumbers are one dollar twenty per half kilogram. | ||
| 6. (dialectal Mandarin) stupid, dumb; silly, thick, lacking mental agility (often in a cute way) | ||
| 你 這 人 怎麼 這麼 二！ (Nǐ zhè rén zěnme zhème èr!) - Why are you so incorrigibly stupid! | ||
| 7. (HKC, school slang) to obtain a level two in a subject in DSE (exam) (usually implies failing the subject) | ||
| 我 中文man4-2 二 咗，入 唔到 Uju1。 - I got a level two in Chinese, can't get into university. | ||
| 8. (classical) Alternative form of 貳; usually limited to the simplified script | ||
| 不二过 - tr=bù'èrguò | ||
| 9. usage. See 兩 - Usage notes. | ||
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Pronunciation
xīng qī èr
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