Here’s a tricky one: try saying the year 2000 in Chinese. So while we say 2020 as “twenty-twenty,” in Chinese, it’s always 二零二零年 (èr líng èr líng nián).īut if that’s too much of a mouthful, don’t worry-there is one way you can shorten it, so long as the year is recent.įor example, instead of saying 1973 (一九七三年), you can just say ’73 (七三年). Unlike in English though, you can’t split up the year into two parts. When talking about a specific year in Chinese, all you do is read out each digit and attach the word 年 to the end of it. Dateīefore we get into how to form years in Chinese, here are a few time terms you’ll need to know first: * National holidays based on the lunar calendar are noted with 2023 dates. Here’s what the Gregorian calendar months are in Chinese, with supplementary details such as national holidays and special Chinese dates. To say the months in Chinese, you only need to know how to count and say 月 (yuè), which means “month.”įor instance, January is literally “one month,” February is “two month” and November is “eleven month.” Chinese (Download) The Calendar Months in Chinese This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that youĬlick here to get a copy.
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