zhou
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 粥 (zhōu). Doublet of jook.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /d͡ʒoʊ/
Noun
zhou (uncountable)
- (Chinese contexts) Synonym of congee: a thick rice porridge.
- 2008 June 11, Matthew Forney, “Scorpions for Breakfast and Snails for Dinner”, in New York Times:
- We did, however, send them to a Chinese nursery school that fed them a daily lunch of zhou, a rice porridge with various seasonings: pickled turnips, flakes of dough sticks, green or red beans, sesame paste, or something called hot prickly mustard tubers.
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Romanization
zhou
- Nonstandard spelling of zhōu.
- Nonstandard spelling of zhóu.
- Nonstandard spelling of zhǒu.
- Nonstandard spelling of zhòu.
Usage notes
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Noun
zhou class 9 (plural zhou class 10)
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