抓周

抓週
zhuāzhōu
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 the first-birthday grab, a custom in which a one-year-old picks one of several objects to foretell its future
  2. 2 to pick an object at the first-birthday grab

Examples

HSK 7-9
Háizi mǎn zhōusuì shí, hěnduō jiātíng huì ràng tā zhuāzhōu.
When a child turns one, many families let the baby do the first-birthday grab.
HSK 7-9
Zhuāzhōu de shíhou, nǚ'ér yìbǎ zhuāzhù le suànpan, yéye shuō tā jiānglái huì zuò shēngyi.
At her first-birthday grab, my daughter seized the abacus, and Grandpa said she would go into business one day.

Tips

culture
The baby is set among objects such as a book, a writing brush, an abacus, money and a seal: a book promises a scholar, the abacus a merchant. The writer 钱钟书 got his name this way: at his 抓周 he grabbed a book, so he was named 钟书, 'fond of books'.

Stroke Order

抓 zhuā
周 zhōu