{"id":146,"date":"2018-08-21T07:52:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T07:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mandarinplus.com.sg\/?p=146"},"modified":"2020-04-13T22:05:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T14:05:53","slug":"das-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mandarinplus.com.sg\/old-mandarin\/das-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Days of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-767\" src=\"https:\/\/mandarinplus.com.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/day2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you want to organize a meeting in Mandarin , Chinese days of the week is the useful thing for you to know.<\/p>\n<p>In Chinese we use \u201cweek\u201d + number 1-6 to express Monday to Saturday .\u201cweek\u201d in Mandarin is \u201cx\u012bng q\u012b \uff08\u661f\u671f\uff09\u201d , \u201cx\u012bng(\u661f)\u201dmeaning star \uff0c\u201cq\u012b(\u671f)\u201dmeaning time period here, then we have ,<\/p>\n<p>x\u012bng q\u012b y\u012b \u2014Monday<br \/>\nweek one ( literally)<br \/>\n\u661f\u671f\u4e00<\/p>\n<p>x\u012bng q\u012b \u00e8r \u2014 Tuesday<br \/>\nweek two (literally)<br \/>\n\u661f\u671f\u4e8c<\/p>\n<p>x\u012bng q\u012b s\u0101n \u2014Wednesday<br \/>\n\u661f\u671f\u4e09<\/p>\n<p>x\u012bng q\u012b s\u00ec\u2014Thursday<br \/>\n\u661f\u671f\u56db<\/p>\n<p>x\u012bng q\u012b w\u01d4\u2014Friday<br \/>\n\u661f\u671f\u4e94<\/p>\n<p>x\u012bng q\u012b li\u00f9 \u2014Saturday<br \/>\n\u661f\u671f\u516d<\/p>\n<p>However Sunday is not \u201cweek seven\u201din Chinese. We call it \u201cweek sun \u201d, the sun\u2019s day . It pronounces as<\/p>\n<p>x\u012bng q\u012b r\u00ec \u2014Sunday<br \/>\n\u661f\u671f\u65e5<\/p>\n<p>But beginners might feel \u201cr\u00ec\u201d is hard to pronounce , no worries, you can use another one \uff0c<\/p>\n<p>x\u012bng q\u012b ti\u0101n \u2014Sunday<br \/>\n\u661f\u671f\u5929<\/p>\n<p>(literally meaning \u201cweek day\u201d\uff09<\/p>\n<p>Ok, what day is it today ?<\/p>\n<p>Now you can confidently to say \u201cx\u012bng q\u012b w\u01d4 \u201d\uff01<\/p>\n<p>Any other thing in Chinese you want to know ? Just drop us a message here .<\/p>\n<p>xi\u00e8xie d\u00e0 ji\u0101 \uff01<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-769\" src=\"https:\/\/mandarinplus.com.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/day2-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mandarinplus.com.sg\/old-mandarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/day2-2.png 450w, https:\/\/mandarinplus.com.sg\/old-mandarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/day2-2-300x131.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to organize a meeting in Mandarin , Chinese days of the week is the useful thing for you to know. In Chinese we use \u201cweek\u201d + number 1-6 to express Monday to Saturday .\u201cweek\u201d in Mandarin is \u201cx\u012bng q\u012b \uff08\u661f\u671f\uff09\u201d , \u201cx\u012bng(\u661f)\u201dmeaning star \uff0c\u201cq\u012b(\u671f)\u201dmeaning time period here, then we have , x\u012bng [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandarinplus.com.sg\/old-mandarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandarinplus.com.sg\/old-mandarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandarinplus.com.sg\/old-mandarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandarinplus.com.sg\/old-mandarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandarinplus.com.sg\/old-mandarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mandarinplus.com.sg\/old-mandarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/mandarinplus.com.sg\/old-mandarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandarinplus.com.sg\/old-mandarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandarinplus.com.sg\/old-mandarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandarinplus.com.sg\/old-mandarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandarinplus.com.sg\/old-mandarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}