Day of the Week – shing-chee

Written as xīngqī or xingqi

Note: all the days of the week start with "day of the week" or "shing-chee".

To remember that day of the week is pronounced shing-chee use the following mnemonic:

Whatever the day of the week, I'll go fishing and eat cheese (shing-chee) because I'm retired.

Tones

1. Shing (fishing) is a 1st tone with — as an accent.

Associate fishing, a 1st tone, with a string or tie or tying a knot. See Tones and Mnemonics.

The nylon "string" has wrapped itself into a knot around the fish.

2. Chee (cheese) is also a 1st tone with — as an accent.

Associate cheese, a 1st tone, with a string or tie or tying a knot. See Tones and Mnemonics.

This cheese was tied with string. 

Remember 

Shing = 1st tone = —

Chee = 1st tone = —