zhou

nounattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//d͡ʒəʊ//
United States//d͡ʒoʊ//

Synonym of congee, a thick rice porridge.

noun

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Synonym of congee, a thick rice porridge.
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.

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 粥 (zhōu). Doublet of jook and juk.

Zhang · A surname from Chinese.Zhao · A county in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China Zhen · A surname.

zhou · Synonym of congee, a thick rice porridge.

Zhou · A people of ancient China.zhu · An ancient Chinese unit of weight, notionally equivalent to…Zhu · A surname from Chinese.

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