| Telling the time in Chinese is a useful and pretty easy tool to add to your armour. Time in Chinese is 时间 shí jiān. There’s your first word, but before going any further, you want to get the numbers in Chinese down. Once you have these locked in, you open up a whole wealth of possibilities which we will soon make very clear to you!  So, let’s get those numbers down: 0 零 / 〇 líng 1 一 yī 2 二 èr 3 三 sān 4 四 sì 5 五 wǔ 6 六 liù 7 七 qī 8 八 bā 9 九 jiǔ 10 十 shí 11 十一 shí yī 12 十二 shí èr Days of the Week So, once you’ve got those numbers stored into the memory bank, the days of the week couldn’t be much easier. We don’t need to learn 7 separate words, we need to learn one word, and add a number onto the end of it! 星期一 xīngqī yī (Monday) 星期二 xīngqī èr (Tuesday) 星期三 xīngqī sān (Wednesday) 星期四 xīngqī sì (Thursday) 星期五 xīngqī wŭ (Friday) 星期六 xīngqī liù (Saturday) 星期天 xīngqī tiān (Sunday) The keyword you are looking for here is 星期 xīngqī. After this we simply add the number, with Monday representing one, through to Saturday which is six. Bare in mind Sunday is not numbered, but 天 is used instead. This is the only exception to the rule. There are variations to 星期 xīngqī which also include 周 zhōu and 礼拜 lǐbài. Again, you just add the number onto the end so Monday can actually be: 周一 星期一 礼拜一 And some other useful vocab relating to time in Chinese for you… 今天 jīntiān (Today) 昨天 zuótiān (Yesterday) 明天 míngtiān (Tomorrow) 前天 qián tiān (2 days ago) 后天 hòu tiān (2 days ahead) 大前天 dà qián tiān (3 days ago) 大后天 dà hòu tiān (3 days ahead) |
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