zhou

From the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese 粥 (zhōu).

zhou (uncountable)

1. (Chinese contexts) Synonym of congee: a thick rice porridge.
   • 2008 June 11, Matthew Forney, “Scorpions for Breakfast and Snails for Dinner”, in New York Times‎:

     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.

• jook

• Zhuo

zhou

1. Nonstandard spelling of zhōu.
2. Nonstandard spelling of zhóu.
3. Nonstandard spelling of zhǒu.
4. Nonstandard spelling of zhòu.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.