Now we will learn some vocabulary about days, months, and seasons. Ok let’s we start from the Months, no specific words are used, just use the basic number and adding the month.
一月 ‘yi(1) yue(4)’ means ‘January’
二月 ‘er(4) yue(4)’ means ‘February’
三月 ‘san(1) yue(4)’ means
四月 ‘si(4) yue(4)’ means
五月 ‘wu(3) yue(4)’ means
六月 ‘liu(4) yue(4)’ means
七月 ‘qi(1) yue(4)’ means
八月 ‘ba(1) yue(4)’ means
九月 ‘jiu(3) yue(4)’ means
十月 ‘shi(2) yue(4)’ means
十一月 ‘shi(2) yi(1) yue(4)’ means
十二月 ‘shi(2) er(4) yue(4)’ means
So simple….? Ok, now we continue to the Days.
星期一 ‘xing(1) qi(1) yi(1)’ means ‘Monday’
星期二 ‘xing(1) qi(1) er(4)’ means ‘Tuesday’
星期三 ‘xing(1) qi(1) san(3)’ means ‘Wednesday’
星期四 ‘xing(1) qi(1) si(4)’ means ‘Thursday’
星期五 ‘xing(1) qi(1) wu(3)’ means ‘Friday’
星期六 ‘xing(1) qi(1) liu(4)’ means ‘Saturday’
星期天 ‘xing(1) qi(1) tian(1)’ means ‘Sunday’
This is similar to the months, except for the Sunday, that doesn’t use seven.
Continuing to the seasons..
春天 ‘chun(1) tian(1)’ means ‘spring’
夏天 ‘xia(4) tian(1)’ means ‘summer’
秋天 ‘qiu(1) tian(1)’ means ‘autumn, fall’
冬天 ‘dong(1) tian(1)’ means ‘winter’
Some words related with it:
天 ‘tian(1)’ means ‘day’
月 ‘yue(4)’ means ‘month’
年 ‘nian(2)’ means ‘year’
日立 ‘ri(4) li(4)’ means ‘calendar’
Now, you have known some words related with those, please kindly to correct it in comments, if I am doing a mistake.
Published February 6th, 2007 in Vocabulary
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