HSK 5 · Time

日期 rìqī “date” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 日期 means

  1. date

How to say 日期

  • 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 first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale期qī1st tone, high and level

日期 in a sentence

  1. 我不确定确切的日期。

    Wǒ bú quèdìng quèqiè de rìqī.

    I’m not sure of the exact date.

    Sentence #2040472 from Tatoeba

  2. 我们必须快点定下旅游日期。

    Wǒmen bìxū kuàidiǎn dìngxià lǚyóu rìqī.

    We need to fix the date for our trip soon.

    Sentence #5670801 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我把日期弄错了。

    Wǒ bǎ rìqī nòngcuò le.

    I got the date wrong.

    Sentence #13795590 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 日期 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 期 (qī) with each of its parts in a different colour
期qīperiod
  • 其his · qíSound part
  • 月moon · yuèMeaning part

月 hints at the meaning (moon); 其 (qí) hints at the sound. Compare it with qī.

How to write 日期

日 4 strokes · 期 12 strokes

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

Words related to 日期

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日历rìlì · calendar日子rìzi · day日程rìchéng · schedule日常rìcháng · day-to-day

Words with 期

星期xīngqī · week星期日Xīngqīrì · Sunday星期天Xīngqītiān · Sunday假期jiàqī · holiday学期xuéqī · term期间qījiān · period of time时期shíqī · period过期guòqī · to be overdue期待qīdài · to look forward to定期dìngqī · regular

More words: Time & Sequence

年纪niánjì · age平常píngcháng · ordinary期间qījiān · period of time日历rìlì · calendar日子rìzi · day如今rújīn · nowadays时代shídài · age时刻shíkè · time

FAQs

日期 (rìqī) means “date”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it rìqī: rì with a 4th tone, then qī with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 日期 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type riqi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 日期 from the suggestions. Typing riqi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
日期 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.