A pixel-style pebble watch face with a full Chinese display, striking a balance between colloquialism and literary sense.
In order to accommodate the Chinese way of reading time and the aesthetics of the interface, the logic for converting numbers to Chinese characters has been slightly adjusted. You can refer to the logic below to confirm if it meets your requirements:
小時 (Hour)：
Presented using Chinese uppercase numerals. The part that deviates from numerical logic is that 10 is represented by only a single character (“拾”).
In the hour numerals, an accent color is applied to certain strokes; this color highlights the lowercase numerals that are, in a sense, hidden within the uppercase ones.
分鐘 (Minute)：
Presented using Chinese lowercase numerals.
At 00 minutes, it displays as “點整” (equivalent to the usage of “O’Clock”).
At 30 minutes, it displays as “點半” (half).
Furthermore, in the minute block, I decided to always display two characters. Therefore, 1 minute is called “〇一”, and 10 minutes is displayed as “一〇”, which is a writing style common in formal documents.
Integers in the tens, like 20 and 30 minutes, are represented using the more common forms like “二十” and “三十”.
As for minutes after 21, because they have three syllables in spoken Chinese, complex characters (ligatures) with clear documented origins like “廿(20)” and “卅(30)” are used.
As for “卌(40)”, because it lacks records of daily use and is easily confused with “卅”, regular lowercase numerals (“四”, “五”) are used, omitting the “十”, as an acceptable solution.
月份 (Month)：
Uses uppercase numeral writing. The logic is not much different from the hour block.
日期 (Day)：
Uses lowercase numeral writing, combining the simple logic from the hour block and the use of “廿” and “卅”.
星期 (Day of the week)：
Uses lowercase numeral writing (yes, the day of the week in Chinese is directly represented by numbers), with the sole exception of Sunday, which uses “日” or “天”, I choose “日” in this project.
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