HSK 6 · Time

昔日 xīrì “former days” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 昔日 means

  1. former days
  2. in the past

How to say 昔日

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale昔xī1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale日rì4th tone, falling

昔日 in a sentence

  1. 这些照片总是让我想起昔日时光。

    Zhèxiē zhàopiàn zǒngshì ràng wǒ xiǎngqǐ xīrì shíguāng.

    These photos always remind me of the old days.

    Sentence #1401778 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 昔日 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 昔 (xī) with each of its parts in a different colour
昔xīformer times
  • 廿twenty · niàn
  • 日sun · rì
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.

How to write 昔日

昔 8 strokes · 日 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 昔日

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日期rìqī · date日子rìzi · day日程rìchéng · schedule

More words: Time & Sequence

往事wǎngshì · the past为期wéiqī · to last for (a period)向来xiànglái · always先前xiānqián · before延期yánqī · to postpone延续yánxù · to continue一度yídù · once以往yǐwǎng · in the past

FAQs

昔日 (xīrì) means “former days” or “in the past”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xīrì: xī with a 1st tone, then rì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 昔日 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xiri with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 昔日 from the suggestions. Typing xiri into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
昔日 is an HSK 6 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.