Lesson 3: Date, Month, Year and Time in Chinese

The General format for dates and time in Mandarin is:

  • Year + Month + Date + Day of the Week + Time of Day + Time*

Days of the Week in Chinese

Vocabulary Pinyin (Read) Chinese Character
Date Rìqí 日期
Year  nián
Month  yuè
Date hào
Sunday (1) xīng qī rì 星期日
Sunday (2) xīng qī tiān 星期天
Monday xīng qī yī 星期一
Tuesday xīng qī èr 星期二
Wednesday xīng qī sān 星期三
Thursday xīng qī sì 星期四
Friday xīng qī wǔ 星期五
Saturday xīng qī liù 星期六


Notes:
星期(xīng qī) means week.
A week is a 星期, literally a “star period”.
Sunday is slightly different, giving us two choices: 星期日 and 星期天.

Say Date in Chinese:

  • Jan 1         一月一号              yī yuè yī hào
  • Mar 9       三月八号              Sān yuè bā hào
  • Apri 17      四月十七号         Sì yuè shíqī hào
  • Sept 20     九月二十号         Jiǔ yuè èrshí hào
  • Nov 11     十一月十一号       shí yī yuè shí yī hào
  • Dec 31     十二月三十一号   Shí’èr yuè sānshíyī hào

Months in Chinese – (yuè) 月 

Vocabulary Pinyin (Read) Chinese Character
January yī yuè 一月
February èr yuè 二月
March sān yuè 三月
April sì yuè 四月
May wǔ yuè 五月
June liù yuè 六月
July qī yuè 七月
August bā yuè 八月
September jiǔ yuè 九月
October shí yuè 十月
November shí yī 十一月
December shí’èr yuè 十二月


Years 

  • 2008 is èr líng líng bā nián
  • 2000 is èr líng líng líng nián
  • 1999 is yī jiǔ jiǔ jiǔ nián
  • 2016 is èrlíng yī liù nián
Vocabulary Pinyin (Read) Chinese Character
2 years ago qián nián 前年
the year before last qián nián 前年
last year qù nián 去年
this year jīn nián 今年
next year míng nián 明年
2 years from now hòu nián 后年
the year after next hòu nián 后年
Year nián
2 months ago liǎng gè yuè qián 两个月前
last month shàng gè yuè 上个月
this month zhè ge yuè 这个月
next month xià gè yuè 下个月
2 months from now liǎng gè yuè hòu 两个月后
2 days ago qián tiān 前天
yesterday zuó tiān 昨天
today jīn tiān 今天
tomorrow míng tiān 明天
in 2 days hòu tiān 后天
how many
month, moon yuè
number, date hào
week xīngqī 星期
this month Zhè gè yùe 这个月
next week Xià gè xīngqī 下个星期

Sentence Example: 
1. What day of the week is the 25th of May?
Pinyin (Read): 5 yuè 25 hào shì xīngqī jǐ?
Chinese words: 5月 25号 是 星期 几

2. The 25th of May is a Sunday.
Pinyin (Read): 5 yuè 25 hào shì xīngqītiān.
Chinese words: 5月 25号 是 星期天

3. What’s the date of next Wednesday?
Pinyin (Read): Xià gè xīngqīsān shì jǐ yuè jǐ hào?
Chinese words: 下 个 星期三 是 几 月 几 号

4. Next Wednesday is May 8th.
Pinyin (Read): Xià gè xīngqīsān shì 5 yuè 28 hào.
Chinese words:  下 个 星期三 是 5月 28号

5.  Are we in 2005? (This year is 2005?)
Pinyin (Read): Jīnnián shì bú shì 2005 nián?
Chinese words: 今年 是 不 是 2005年

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