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Date in Chinese

date · HSK 4

日期 rì qī

  1. 日 rì day
  2. 期 qī period

Counted with 个: 一个日期 yí gè rìqī

请在这里写上今天的日期。 Please write today's date here.

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How do you say date in Chinese?

Date in Chinese is 日期 (rì qī). You can also say 日子 (rì zi), 约会 (yuē huì), 号 (hào), 日 (rì).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.