次日

cìrì

noun HSK 7-9 #24,018

Meanings

1 next day
2 the following day
3 the morrow

Characters

next; secondary

Examples

他们约好次日一早出发。

Tāmen yuē hǎo cìrì yīzǎo chūfā.

They agreed to set out early the next morning.

次日，消息传遍了整个城市。

Cìrì, xiāoxi chuánbiàn le zhěnggè chéngshì.

The next day, the news spread throughout the entire city.

Tips

register

次日 is a literary/formal expression. In everyday conversation, people say 第二天 (the second day/next day). 次日 is commonly found in written narratives, news reports, and formal documents.

Stroke Order

次 cì

日 rì