黄金周

黃金週

huángjīnzhōu

noun

Meanings

1 Golden Week
2 the two 7-day national holiday periods in China (around Lunar New Year and around National Day, Oct 1)

Characters

Examples

HSK 2

今年黄金周我们打算去云南。

Jīnnián huángjīnzhōu wǒmen dǎsuàn qù Yúnnán.

We're planning to go to Yunnan during this year's Golden Week.

HSK 5

黄金周期间机票涨了三倍。

Huángjīnzhōu qījiān jīpiào zhǎng le sānbèi.

Plane tickets tripled during Golden Week.

Tips

culture

China introduced 黄金周 in 1999 to boost domestic tourism. Today it usually refers to the October 1 National Day week - the largest annual human migration on Earth, with hundreds of millions of people on the move at once.

Stroke Order

黄 huáng

金 jīn

周 zhōu