Alright, now it’s time to learn some vocabulary related to date and time. This lesson will teach you how the days of the week, months, seasons and times of day are called in Chinese.

This lesson is part of the chapter “Learning Chinese (Mandarin)“.

Date & time in Chinese

Previous lesson:

Next lesson:

Days of the week

EnglishChineseChinese
(Romanization)		Pronunciation
(Audio)
Monday星期一xīng qī yīzh-sing_monday
Tuesday星期二xīng qī èrzh-sing_tuesday
Wednesday星期三xīng qī sānzh-sing_wednesday
Thursday星期四xīng qī sìzh-sing_thursday
Friday星期五xīng qī wǔzh-sing_friday
Saturday星期六xīng qī liùzh-sing_saturday
Sunday星期天xīng qī tiānzh-sing_sunday
Weekend周末zhōu mòzh-sing_weekend
on Monday在星期一zài xīng qī yīzh-sing_on-monday
on Tuesday在星期二zài xīng qī èrzh-sing_on-tuesday
on Wednesday在星期三zài xīng qī sānzh-sing_on-wednesday
on Thursday在星期四zài xīng qī sìzh-sing_on-thursday
on Friday在星期五zài xīng qī wǔzh-sing_on-friday
on Saturday在星期六zài xīng qī liùzh-sing_on-saturday
on Sunday在星期天zài xīng qī tiānzh-sing_on-sunday
at the weekend在周末zài zhōu mòzh-sing_at-the-weekend
on Mondays每周一měi zhōu yīzh-sing_on-mondays
on Tuesdays每周二měi zhōu èrzh-sing_on-tuesdays
on Wednesdays每周三měi zhōu sānzh-sing_on-wednesdays
on Thursdays每周四měi zhōu sìzh-sing_on-thursdays
on Fridays每周五měi zhōu wǔzh-sing_on-fridays
on Saturdays每周六měi zhōu liùzh-sing_on-saturdays
on Sundays每周日měi zhōu rìzh-sing_on-sundays
at Weekends每个周末měi zhōu mòzh-sing_at-weekends

Months

EnglishChineseChinese
(Romanization)		Pronunciation
(Audio)
January一月yī yuèzh-sing_january
February二月èr yuèzh-sing_february
March三月sān yuèzh-sing_march
April四月sì yuèzh-sing_april
May五月wǔ yuèzh-sing_may
June六月liù yuèzh-sing_june
July七月qī yuèzh-sing_july
August八月bā yuèzh-sing_august
September九月jiǔ yuèzh-sing_september
October十月shí yuèzh-sing_october
November十一月shí yī yuèzh-sing_november
December十二月shí èr yuèzh-sing_december

Seasons

EnglishChineseChinese
(Romanization)		Pronunciation
(Audio)
Spring春季chūn jìzh-sing_spring
Summer夏季xià jìzh-sing_summer
Autumn / Fall秋季qiū jìzh-sing_autumnfall
Winter冬季dōng jìzh-sing_winter

Times of Day

EnglishChineseChinese
(Romanization)		Pronunciation
(Audio)
morning上午shàng wǔzh-sing_morning
forenoon午前wǔ qiánzh-sing_forenoon
noon正午zhèng wǔzh-sing_noon
afternoon下午xià wǔzh-sing_afternoon
evening晚上wǎn shàngzh-sing_evening
night夜间yè jiānzh-sing_night
midnight午夜wǔ yèzh-sing_midnight

Vocabulary trainer: Date & Time in Chinese

How do you say
on Tuesdays
in Chinese?

Correct answers: 0Wrong answers: 0

Vocabulary trainer: all lessons

App2Brain vocabulary trainer

Use our free online vocabulary trainer to learn these and many other useful Chinese words and phrases

Open vocabulary trainer

Download this lesson

App2Brain vocabulary trainer

If you want to learn Chinese offline you can download our free cheat sheet with all the words and phrases in this lesson

Download the free PDF

Previous lesson:

Next lesson:

Beginners guide to learning languages

Download your free language learning guide

Our free 18-page PDF ebook will teach you how to:

  • Get (and stay) motivated learning a new language
  • Achieve 80% of your goals with only 20% of the effort
  • Make your learning experience more fun than ever

Download the free ebook

More Chinese lessons

Latest posts from our language learning blog

[fusion_recent_posts layout=’thumbnails-on-side’ hover_type=’none’ columns=’2′ number_posts=’6′ thumbnail=’yes’ title=’yes’ meta=’yes’ excerpt=’yes’ excerpt_length=’15’ strip_html=’yes’ hide_on_mobile=’no’ animation_type=’none’][/fusion_recent_posts]