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    Xiànzài J Ǐ Diǎn Le?

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    This document provides information about telling time in Chinese. It discusses asking for the time, saying the minutes and half hour, common time words like "morning" and "afternoon", and the order of time words in a Chinese time phrase from largest to smallest unit. For example, the phrase for 6:00 AM would be "early morning six o'clock" or 早上六点. There are no prepositions like "in" or "at" used with Chinese time phrases.

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    This document provides information about telling time in Chinese. It discusses asking for the time, saying the minutes and half hour, common time words like "morning" and "afternoon", and the order of time words in a Chinese time phrase from largest to smallest unit. For example, the phrase for 6:00 AM would be "early morning six o'clock" or 早上六点. There are no prepositions like "in" or "at" used with Chinese time phrases.

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    This document provides information about telling time in Chinese. It discusses asking for the time, saying the minutes and half hour, common time words like "morning" and "afternoon", and the order of time words in a Chinese time phrase from largest to smallest unit. For example, the phrase for 6:00 AM would be "early morning six o'clock" or 早上六点. There are no prepositions like "in" or "at" used with Chinese time phrases.

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    Asking for the time

     几点了? Jǐ diǎn le? means what time is it?


     现在 xiànzài means now.
    Remember, the time words go at the beginning of the sentence in
    Chinese. So the word ‘now’ Xiànzài goes before ‘what time is it?’
    jǐ diǎn le?

     What time is it now? = 现在几点了？ Xiànzài jǐ diǎn le?

    Saying the minutes

    分fēn minute; fēn goes after the number

    Saying the half hour


    半 Bàn means half.

     2:30 can be 两点三十 liǎng diǎn sānshí

     2:30 can also be 两点半 liǎng diǎn bàn


    Following this pattern, 3:30 is either:

     三点三十 sān diǎn sānshí or


     三点半 sān diǎn bàn.
    Following this pattern, 4:30 is:

     四点三十 sì diǎn sānshí or


     四点半 sì diǎn bàn and so on.
    All about time words
    Chinese commonly use:

     早上 zǎoshàng and 上午 shàngwŭ to indicate a.m. and


     下午 xiàwŭ and 晚上 wǎnshàng for p.m..
    In a Chinese sentence, when there are several time words, the sequence
    is from big to small. In the morning / a.m. or in the afternoon / p.m. is used
    before the hour.
    For example:
    at 6:00 a.m. is (in the early morning 6 o’clock)
    早上六点 zǎoshàng liù diǎn
    at 10:00 a.m. is (in the morning 10 o’clock) 上午十点 shàngwŭ shí
    diǎn
    at 1:00 p.m. is (in the afternoon 1 o’clock) 下午一点 xiàwŭ yì diǎn

    at 8:00 p.m. is (in the evening 8 o’clock) 晚上八点 wǎnshàng bā diǎn

    at 12 p.m. is (noon 12 o’clock) 中午十二点 zhōngwŭ shièr diǎn

    No prepositions
    In Chinese time phrases, there are no prepositions such as in the, at,
    and so on.

     上午 shàngwŭ means in the morning


     下午 xiàgwǔ means in the afternoon
     晚上 wǎnshàng means in the evening, and so on.

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