zhou en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /d͡ʒəʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /d͡ʒoʊ/ (General-American)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 粥 (zhōu). Doublet of jook and juk.
Meanings
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(qualifier:Chinese contexts, uncountable) Synonym of congee, a thick rice porridge.
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.
2008 June 11, Matthew Forney, “Scorpions for Breakfast and Snails for Dinner”, in New York Times: