Time & Dates时间
Days, months, weeks, hours — say when things happen.
Time words are where Chinese starts feeling refreshingly simple. There are no tenses to conjugate: 今天 (today), 明天 (tomorrow) and 昨天 (yesterday) do the work that verb endings do in European languages. The days of the week are just numbers — 星期一 is literally 'week-one' for Monday — and the months follow the same pattern, with 一月 for January through 十二月 for December.
Notice how much this topic recycles the numbers you already know: dates, hours (三点 is three o'clock), and weekdays are all number-plus-unit constructions. That's deliberate — Chinese builds complex meaning by stacking simple, regular pieces, and time vocabulary is your first extended demonstration of it. Learn 年 (year), 月 (month), 日 (day) and 点 (o'clock) and the calendar is essentially yours.