Chinese-all-day-breakfast/MD/g1-24.md

Time

The following are ways of telling the time in Chinese:

A: 現在幾點﹖
B: 現在...
兩點  2:00
十點半 (or 十點三十分)  10:30
三點一刻 (or 三點十五分) 3:15
十二點三刻 (or 十二點四十五分)  12:45
兩點差五分 (or 差五分兩點)    1:55
五點二十分   5:20
六點零五分   6:05
七點三十五分  7:35

Some notes:

1. When zero is flanked by two digits, it is normally read as 零, as in 三點零八分 (3:08) or 十二點零三分 (12:03).

2. When the minutes are greater than 10, the word 分 is optional:

   七點十五 or 七點十五分
   

3. "This morning" is 今天上午, not for example 這個上午; "every afternoon" is 每天下午, not 每下午.