時間表達 — Time runs largest unit first: year, then month, then day; hour, then minute.

grammar → 時間表達

TSUMUGU · TBCL 1 (est.) · 語法

時間表達 grammar point · tier 4 · date & clock order (large unit → small)

Time runs largest unit first: year, then month, then day; hour, then minute.

字源 FORM what the parts do

Each unit sits outside the next: the year wraps the month, the month wraps the day, the hour wraps the minute.

故事 STORY a scene to remember it by

Nested boxes open outside-in: the year box holds the month box, which holds the day; the minute box sits deepest and cannot hold any of them.

字源記憶法自撰

框 · Frame

[year]年 [month]月 [day]日；[hour]點 [minute]分

觸 · Trigger

You are naming a date or a clock time and need the units in order.

序 · The move

1start with the widest unit on hand: the yearis anything larger still unsaid?

2step inward: month, then dayis each unit smaller than the one before it?

3for clock time, hour before minuteis 點 before 分?

例 · Examples

1一九九五年year六月month十三日day；下午兩點o'clock三十分minute。

13 June 1995; 2:30 in the afternoon.

界 · Boundary

地點表達

Both zoom outside-in: place runs country to street, time runs year to minute. One nests space, the other nests duration.

小→大 date: 十三日六月一九九五年 → 一九九五年六月十三日

minute before hour: 三十分兩點 → 兩點三十分

day-part marker trailing the clock: 兩點三十分下午 → 下午兩點三十分

English date and clock order varies and often runs small→large (13 June) or month-day-year (June 13, 1995); Chinese is strictly large→small, year to minute.