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Telling the Date

Dates are always given in major to minor unit, as follows: year, month, day, day of the week.

Hence

Tuesday, July 4, 1976

becomes

一九七六年 七月 四日星期二

Note that, unlike English, the year is read one digit at a time and the word nian is always used.

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