星期天
xīng qī tiān
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Sunday, the word people normally use when speaking. It means the same as the written 星期日. Like other time words it goes before the verb, at the start or after the subject: 星期天我在家 'I'm at home on Sunday'.
Chủ nhật, cách nói thường ngày. Nghĩa như 星期日 (dạng viết). Giống các từ chỉ thời gian khác, nó đứng trước động từ, ở đầu câu hoặc sau chủ ngữ: 星期天我在家 (Chủ nhật tôi ở nhà).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “星期天” mean?
Sunday, the word people normally use when speaking. It means the same as the written 星期日. Like other time words it goes before the verb, at the start or after the subject: 星期天我在家 'I'm at home on Sunday'. Literally: star period day
Is “星期天” formal or informal?
星期天 is generally neutral.