How to Say Date in Chinese – Year, Month, Day in Mandarin?

How to say Date in Chinese? To mention Chinese Date – Year, Month, Day, you must be familiar with the numbers in Chinese from 1 to 31 to say out the day of the month and also to read the year from 2000 onwards correctly.

How to Say Calendar in Chinese?

There are several terms to the word Calendar in Mandarin. Just the Chinese lunar calendar alone has already several names. However, I would not be emphasising them but only the terms for the Solar or Gregorian Calendar which most of us are familiar with in our daily life.

How to Say Year in Chinese?

Year in Chinese is 年 Nián. We read the individual Chinese digits for Year in Chinese and not how you would say the cardinal number 1815 as

The exception is the year 2000 (and onwards) which we sometimes say it as a whole number (Year Two Thousand – see below) instead of individual number 二零零零年 Èr líng líng líng nián. If you want to say the Year in Chinese more correctly, cite the four digits separately and you will never go wrong.

 

How to Say Chinese Months?

How to say Month in Chinese? Month in Mandarin is 月 Yuè. Saying the twelve Chinese Months is very easy. Place the Chinese number 1 to 12 first, followed by the word Chinese month 月 Yuè.

 How to Say Day in Chinese?

There are two ways to say Day in Chinese – 号 Hào and 日 Rì. Both refer to the day of the month. Usually, we use 号 Hào when we talk about the Day in Mandarin and 日 R when we write the Day in Chinese. You can use either to replace each other in speaking and writing the Day in Chinese. For illustration and listening, only the first 15 days is provided. You can also check out Chinese numeral 11 – 20 and 21 – 30 in a separate post.

 

Writing Dates in Chinese

Different Period of the Year and Month in Chinese

We also have some terms to say the different period of the year and Chinese months below. As for telling other timelines of days and weeks such as yesterday, today, tomorrow and this week, last week in Mandarin and so on, read How to Say 7 Days of the Week.

• Last Year, This Year, Next Year in Chinese

• Last Month, This Month, Last Month in Chinese

• Beginning, Mid, End of the Month / Year in Chinese

 

Asking Questions on Chinese Date – Year, Month, Day

If you want to ask questions specifically on which year, which month and which day, you can use the word 几 Jǐ in front of the Date in Chinese – Year, Month, Day.

＊The link gives a detailed explanation of the inclusion and exclusion of Measure Words used with the Date in Chinese – 年, 月, 日 together with the Chinese Interrogative Word – Which 哪 Nǎ.

• Q = Question = 问 Wèn
• A = Answer = 答 Dá

 

The Chinese word 几 Jǐ is just one of the possibilities to ask questions regarding the Date in Chinese – Year, Month, Day. There are also other ways to ask Date in Mandarin with What, Which and When in Chinese.

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With the end of the lesson about saying Date in Chinese, the next subject would be telling time in Chinese with hour, minutes and seconds.