Calendar Date In Japanese

The most commonly used date format in japan is year month day weekday with the japanese characters meaning year month and day inserted after the numerals.

Calendar date in japanese. The characters 年 月 日 mean year month day so that 1862年9月3日 is the same as 1862 09 03. Here is a short summary of how to express the date in japanese and how to refer to and pronounce the names of the days months and years. In 1873 the gregorian calendar was introduced to japan.

An american might write 9 3 1862. In order to say the date in japanese you can for example say 今日は２０１９年２月１７日です. June 20th 2015 would be 20 06 2015 while in the us it would be 06 20 2015.

Ichi gatsu ee chee gah tsoo january ni gatsu nee gah tsoo february san gatsu sahn gah tsoo march shi gatsu shee gah tsoo april. Telling the date in japanese is not awfully complicated. In japanese the words for the months of the year are based on the numbers 1 12 and end in the japanese word for month.

In 864 japan adopted one of the chinese calendars in which a year was defined as 365 2446 days. A japanese date of monday january 15 2007 may look like any of the following. It was first used in the official calendar in 1873.

The modern gregorian calendar and the japanese traditional calendar called the nengo 年号 system. If the year is included it comes at the beginning. 2008年12月31日 水 for wednesday 31 december 2008.

The date starts with the day then the month and last the year. The counting of japanese years follows the gregorian calendar with the year starting on january 1st and ending on december 31st yet it would be a rare occurrence that the death of an emperor conveniently conforms to these dates. When an emperor dies mid year that year can therefore have two names.