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Friday – shing-chee-wor

Written as xīngqīwŭ or xingqiwu

Note: Friday in Mandarin Chinese starts with "Day of the week" which we already know is shing-chee (xingqi).

Friday is shing-chee-wor (xingqiwu). 

To remember that the end of the word for Friday is pronounced wor (wu), use the following mnemonic:

This fried (Friday) food isn't even warm (wor).

This fried (Friday) food isn't even warm (wor)

Tones

Wor (warm) is a 3rd tone with ∪ as an accent.

Associate being warm, a 3rd tone, with a horse shoe or horse or smile. See Tones and Mnemonics.

Imagine the food coming out warm, that would put a smile on his face.

Imagine the food coming out warm, that would put a smile on his face.

Remember

wor = 3rd tone = ∪

 

Examples of Xingqiwu (Friday) in sentences:

Zongsuan dao xingqiwu. - Finally it's Friday. 

Wo xingqiwu you kong. - I am free on Friday.

zuotian shi xingqiwu. - Yesterday was Friday.

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