HSK 5 · Time

日历 rìlì “calendar” in Chinese

Traditional 日曆

What 日历 means

  1. calendar

Measure word 张 zhāng or 本 běn · 一张日历 yì zhāng rìlì

How to say 日历

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale日rì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale历lì4th tone, falling

日历 in a sentence

  1. 她把日历挂在墙上了。

    Tā bǎ rìlì guà zài qiáng shàng le.

    She hung the calendar on the wall.

    Sentence #894001 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 在西班牙日历中，一周的开始是周一。

    Zài Xībānyá rìlì zhōng, yì zhōu de kāishǐ shì Zhōuyī.

    In the Spanish calendar, the week begins on Monday.

    Sentence #2257005 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 日历上画着红圈的截稿日期使我陷入了焦虑。

    Rìlì shàng huà zhe hóng quān de jiégǎo rìqī shǐ wǒ xiànrù le jiāolǜ.

    The deadline circled in red on the calendar is making me anxious.

    Sentence #10028092 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 日历 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 日 (rì) with each of its parts in a different colour
日rìsun
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 一one · yī

Memory aidDrawn from the sun.

The character 历 (lì) with each of its parts in a different colour
历lìcalendar
  • 厂cliff · hǎn
  • 力strength · lìSound part

厤 hints at the meaning (to calculate); 力 (lì) hints at the sound. Compare it with lì.

How to write 日历

日 4 strokes · 历 4 strokes

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日历 (rìlì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 日历 (rìlì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 日历

Words with 日

星期日Xīngqīrì · Sunday日rì · day生日shēngrì · birthday节日jiérì · holiday工作日gōngzuòrì · working day日记rìjì · diary日期rìqī · date日子rìzi · day日程rìchéng · schedule日常rìcháng · day-to-day

Words with 历

历史lìshǐ · history经历jīnglì · experience学历xuélì · educational background简历jiǎnlì · curriculum vitae (CV)历代lìdài · successive dynasties历来lìlái · always农历nónglì · lunar calendar来历láilì · origin

More words: Time & Sequence

年代niándài · a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties)年纪niánjì · age平常píngcháng · ordinary期间qījiān · period of time日期rìqī · date日子rìzi · day如今rújīn · nowadays时代shídài · age

FAQs

日历 (rìlì) means “calendar”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it rìlì: rì with a 4th tone, then lì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 日历 is written 日曆. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 张 (zhāng) or 本 (běn). For example, one calendar is 一张日历 (yì zhāng rìlì).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type rili with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 日历 from the suggestions. Typing rili into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
日历 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.