HSK · Level 64
105 words
Chinese word
初一
Pronunciation
Pinyinchū yī
Meaning
- nounfirst day of the lunar month
Example
春节初一我们全家一起吃饺子。chūn jié chū yì wǒ men quán jiā yì qǐ chī jiǎo zi
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, our whole family eats dumplings together.
More examples
春节初一人们常穿新衣互相拜年。chūn jié chū yì rén men cháng chuān xīn yī hù xiāng bài nián
On the first day of the Spring Festival, people often wear new clothes and greet one another for the New Year.
Core concept
A label for where a new sequence begins, used for a lunar month's day one and for China's seventh-grade school year.
Common phrases
春节初一chūn jié chū yī
first day of the Spring Festival
初一吃饺子chū yì chī jiǎo zi
eat dumplings on the first day
初一拜年chū yí bài nián
pay New Year visits on the first day
Similar words
春节chūn jié: The Spring Festival, a major Chinese festival for celebrating the lunar New Year.
农历nóng lì: A traditional Chinese calendar based mainly on the moon's cycle.
阳历yáng lì: A solar calendar based on the sun's cycle and used for most dates today.
正月zhēng yuè: The first month of the lunar year.
Definition in Chinese
农历中表示某月第一日的词，常用作日期的简称，如“正月初一”表示农历新年第一天。nóng lì zhōng biǎo shì mǒu yuè dì yí rì de cí cháng yòng zuò rì qī de jiǎn chēng rú zhēng yuè chū yī biǎo shì nóng lì xīn nián dì yì tiān
Word origin
The characters 初 (chū, "beginning") and 一 (yī, "one") combine as "beginning one," a compact way to mark the first unit in either a calendar or school sequence.
Usage tips
- Unlike ordinary Gregorian dates, lunar dates often need the surrounding month or festival to make the calendar context clear.
Other meanings
- seventh gradenoun
Opposites
- 除夕chú xīNew Year's Evenoun