大小周

大小週

dàxiǎozhōu

noun

Meanings

1 alternating weekends schedule (one week two days off, next week one day off)

Characters

Examples

HSK 2

我们公司是大小周。

Wǒmen gōngsī shì dàxiǎozhōu.

Our company runs on alternating weekends.

HSK 3

大小周让人很难安排周末活动。

Dàxiǎozhōu ràng rén hěn nán ānpái zhōumò huódòng.

The alternating-weekends schedule makes it hard to plan weekend activities.

Tips

culture

大小周 means one 'big week' (大周 = two days off) followed by one 'small week' (小周 = one day off), rotating. Became infamous at ByteDance, Kuaishou, and other Chinese tech firms in the late 2010s. ByteDance abolished it company-wide in 2021 after employee pushback.

Stroke Order

大 dà

小 xiǎo

周 zhōu