About midnight, \pen°-ya°-°po/ 半夜把.
Just before daylight, \thien-liang°-kwha°/ 天亮快.
In the evening, \waung-hwung-deu/ 黃昏頭, or \waung-hwung-°doong/
黃昏動.
Last month, \zien-nyoeh/ 前月, or \zien kuh nyoeh/ 前個月.
Next month, \°‘au-nyoeh/ 下月, or \°‘au kuh nyoeh/ 下個月.
First part of the month, \nyoeh deu/ 月頭, or \nyoeh-deu-laung°/
月頭上.
The end of the month, \nyoeh °ti/ 月底.
The middle of the month, \nyoeh-pen°/ 月半.
Every month, \nyoeh-nyoeh/ 月月, \nyoeh-too/ 月多, or \°’me-nyoeh/
每月.
First day of the month, \tshoo-ih/ 初一; second day of the month,
\tshoo nyi°/ 初二, and so on up to the tenth day of the month, which
is \tshoo zeh/. After that \di°/ 第 is used instead of \tshoo/.
Thus the thirteenth of the month would be \di° zeh-san/ 第十三.
A year, \ih-nyien/ 一年.
Half a year, \pen°-nyien/ 半年.
This year, \kyung-nyien/ 今年.
Last year, \jeu°-nyien/ 舊年.
Next year, \khe-nyien/ 開年, \le-nyien/ 來年, \ming-nyien/ 明年.
Every year, nyien-nyien 年年, each year, \°’me-nyien/ 每年. (See
note).
The new year, \sing-nyien/ 新年.
New year’s day, \nyien-tshoo-ih/ 年初一.
The end of the year, \nyien ya°/ 年夜, literally “the night of the
year.” Also we have \nyien-°ti/ 年底.
At the beginning of the year, \nyien-deu-laung°/ 年頭上.
To pass from the old year to the new, \koo° nyien/ 過年.
\°Zaung-pen°/ and \°‘au-pen°/ are used with year, month, and night,
just as they are used with day to denote the first half and the
second half. Thus we have \°zaung-pen°-nyien/ 上半年 for the first
half of the year, and \°‘au-pen°-nyien/ 下半年 for the second half.
Rice (bought in the shop), \°mi/ 米.
Work, \sang-wei/ 生活.
Answer, \we-sing°/ 回信.
Beginning, \°chi-deu/ 起頭.
Again, \tse°/ 再.