明天星期一 Chinese meme and why “Week day one” is monday in Chinese?
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明天星期一 (míng tiān xīng qī yī) — Tomorrow is Monday
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明天 – míng tiān – tomorrow
星 – xīng – star
期 – qī – period / cycle
= 星期 – xīng qī – week ("star cycle" — the ancient Chinese tracked weeks by celestial cycles)
一 – yī – first (position in a sequence, not counting a quantity)
星期一 – xīng qī yī – Monday (literally "week day one")
= Tomorrow is Monday
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Zero-copula sentence in Chinese language
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! This is a zero-copula sentence— there is no verb "is" in Chinese. You simply place the two

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