The Chinese word for Tuesday is
星期二
xīng qī èrChinese Definition
Tuesday | |
1. 名词. 星期二 | |
Components | |
星 | |
1. transliteration of Indian name Singh | |
期 | |
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 | |
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. |
Translations for 二 and their definitions
星期二 | |
1. n. Tuesday |
禮拜二 | |
1. n. Tuesday |
礼拜二 | |
1. Simplified form of 禮拜二 |
周二 | |
1. Simplified form of 週二 |
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