Zhou is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like chou or chow. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Zhou meaning
Synonym of congee, a thick rice porridge.
Using Zhou
- The main meaning on this page is: Synonym of congee, a thick rice porridge.
- Useful related words include: zhou dynasty, chou, chou dynasty, chow.
- In the example corpus, zhou often appears in combinations such as: zhou enlai, zhou was, zhou said.
Context around Zhou
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 12 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Zhou
- In this selection, "zhou" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, father, eastern, grandfather, enlai, panlong and dynasty stand out and add context to how "zhou" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a young zhou enlai 1919 and after birth zhou enlai was. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "zhou" sits close to words such as advancements, attachment and benin, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with zhou
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Zhou's father, Zhou Yineng, was the second of Zhou Panlong's four sons. (14 words)
Barnouin and Yu 77 Zhou's adopted daughter, Sun Weishi, accompanied Zhou to Moscow. (14 words)
Early political activities A young Zhou Enlai (1919) Zhou returned to Tianjin sometime in the spring of 1919. (18 words)
Brook, 19–20 Bricks were produced on a larger scale under the Western Zhou dynasty about 3,000 years ago, and evidence for some of the first fired bricks ever produced has been discovered in ruins dating back to the Zhou. (41 words)
Barnouin and Yu 5 Tsoi Wing-Mui, a magazine editor in Hong Kong, speculated in her 2015 book The Secret Emotional Life of Zhou Enlai that Zhou may have been homosexual and feared "being ruined" if this was publicly revealed. (40 words)
When Premier Zhou Enlai fell ill with cancer, Deng became Zhou's choice as successor, and Zhou was able to convince Mao to bring Deng back into politics in 1974 as First Vice-Premier, in practice running daily affairs. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Lee 6 Zhou's grandfather, Zhou Panlong, and his granduncle, Zhou Jun'ang, were the first members of the family to move to Huai'an.
When Premier Zhou Enlai fell ill with cancer, Deng became Zhou's choice as successor, and Zhou was able to convince Mao to bring Deng back into politics in 1974 as First Vice-Premier, in practice running daily affairs.
Zhou's father, Zhou Yineng, was the second of Zhou Panlong's four sons.
He carried messages from Kissinger to Zhou En-lai in Beijing and arranged Kissinger’s secret flight from Pakistan to meet Zhou in Beijing, paving the way for Nixon’s meeting with Mao.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhou ordered his hometown of Huai'an not to transform his house into a memorial and not to keep up the Zhou family tombs.
Agriculture Zhou vase with glass inlays, 4th-3rd century BC, British Museum Agriculture in the Zhou dynasty was very intensive and, in many cases, directed by the government.
Barnouin and Yu 127, The Shanghai communique main Zhou, shown here with Henry Kissinger and Mao Zedong Zhou shakes hands with President Richard Nixon upon Nixon's arrival in China in February 1972.
Barnouin and Yu 156 The official explanation for Zhou's absence on the flight, however, remains that Zhou was forced to change his schedule due to having had surgery for appendicitis.
Barnouin and Yu 46 One of Zhou's agents working in Nanjing, Qian Zhuangfei, intercepted a telegram requesting further instructions from Nanjing on how to proceed, and abandoned his cover to personally warn Zhou of the impending crackdown.
Barnouin and Yu 59–60 After the Communists reached Shaanxi and completed the Long March, Mao officially took over Zhou Enlai's leading position in the CCP, while Zhou took a secondary position as vice-Chairman.
Barnouin and Yu 5 Tsoi Wing-Mui, a magazine editor in Hong Kong, speculated in her 2015 book The Secret Emotional Life of Zhou Enlai that Zhou may have been homosexual and feared "being ruined" if this was publicly revealed.
Barnouin and Yu 75–76 After finding that his father, Zhou Shaogang, was unable to support himself, Zhou looked after his father in Chongqing until his father's death in 1942.
Barnouin and Yu 77 Zhou's adopted daughter, Sun Weishi, accompanied Zhou to Moscow.
Barnouin and Yu 9 Soon after birth, Zhou Enlai was adopted by his father's youngest brother, Zhou Yigan, who was ill with tuberculosis.
Bonavia 24 Death and reactions Illness and death According to the recent biography of Zhou by Gao Wenqian, Zhou was first diagnosed with bladder cancer in November 1972.
Brook, 19–20 Bricks were produced on a larger scale under the Western Zhou dynasty about 3,000 years ago, and evidence for some of the first fired bricks ever produced has been discovered in ruins dating back to the Zhou.
Early political activities A young Zhou Enlai (1919) Zhou returned to Tianjin sometime in the spring of 1919.
Eastern Zhou The Eastern Zhou was characterized by an accelerating collapse of royal authority, although the king's ritual importance allowed over five more centuries of rule.
In 1952, Peng Dehuai succeeded Zhou in managing the Central Military Commission (which Zhou had headed since 1947).
Intelligence work in Chongqing On 4 May 1939, the Politburo accepted Zhou's assessment that Zhou should focus his efforts on creating a network of secret CCP agents working covertly and for long periods.
Common combinations with zhou
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- zhou enlai 15×
- zhou was 13×
- zhou said 12×
- and zhou 11×
- of zhou 9×
- zhou and 8×
- the zhou 7×
- zhou in 6×
- that zhou 6×
- zhou dynasty 5×