zhou
English edit
Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 粥 (zhōu). Doublet of jook.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /d͡ʒoʊ/
Noun edit
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[1]:
- 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.
Related terms edit
Anagrams edit
Mandarin edit
Romanization edit
zhou
- Nonstandard spelling of zhōu.
- Nonstandard spelling of zhóu.
- Nonstandard spelling of zhǒu.
- Nonstandard spelling of zhòu.
Usage notes edit
- 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.
Shona edit
Noun edit
zhou class 9 (plural zhou class 10)