"A quarter to nine."

Translation: 九点差一刻。

[AndrewLowe0]

From my experience, in Chinese you can say 差一刻九点 as well as 九点差一刻. Both should be correct (have reported).

[Celticfiddleguy]

Both are accepted, 9.Jan.18

[bnbnb2]

My chinese teacher told me that 差一刻 is for only old people

[hippietrail]

How old is an old person? 90 years old? 30 years old?

[Danmoller]

I like old style

[DenisDmir]

Can you ommit 一？ 九点差刻

[AlexandrKara]

I would also be interested.

[AppleBrian127]

"差一刻九點整?" 我覺得也是可以這麼說的！

[jaegerhenry]

Do you mean 九点钟？I've never heard 九点整.

[Bing725326]

I would prefer to say 8:45. It's really weird to say a quarter to nine in Chinese.

[mariomx2099]

I put 一刻差九点 and it wasn't accepted. Was I wrong?

[Jack553563]

I think that's like saying nine o'clock past a quarter. Right words wrong order.

[Erikku15]

I have never heard anyone use this in Taiwan. Not sure about China but nobody speaks like this here

[Cherry406522]

This phrase is so weird. '差一刻九点' 还容易理解。'九点差一刻'怪怪的, 没听过也没看过.

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