• Zhou

    Origin

    From the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin .

    Full definition of zhou

    Noun

    zhou

    (uncountable)
    1. A Chinese rice porridge.
      • 2008, June 11, Matthew Forney, Scorpions for Breakfast and Snails for Dinner, 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.

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