(chū shēng rì qī) - date of birth in Mandarin
chūshēngrìqīTraditional: 出生日期
Translation
date of birth
Stroke order
出
生
日
期
Examples
填。
Please fill in your date of birth.
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You need to write your date of birth on the form.
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I don't remember his date of birth.
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The passport has the date of birth on it.
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Both the date of birth and place of birth need to be provided.
出生日期 (chūshēng rìqī) is the formal term for "date of birth", the phrase you meet on forms, passports and official documents rather than in daily chat. 出生 (chūshēng) means "to be born" and 日期 (rìqī) means "date", so the compound is literally a "birth date".
Do not confuse it with 生日 (shēngrì), "birthday", which is what people actually say when wishing someone well each year; 出生日期 (chūshēng rìqī) is bureaucratic rather than celebratory, so you would never hear it in a birthday greeting.
Because it is a fixed four-syllable phrase, it always appears as a whole unit; do not try to split it or insert other words into the middle of it.
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