早

The character "早" has 6 strokes. "早" is one of the 3500 commonly used characters. The character "早" has 1 pronunciations, . The pronunciations of "早" are "zǎo" . View the stroke order of "早">>

The basic meaning of the Chinese character "早"

n.: (early) morning; good morning

adj.: earlier; in advance; beforehand; early

adv.: long ago; as early as; for a long time

• good morning : excl.早上好
• earlier : adj.初期的；早期的；早的；早熟的；（early的比较级）
• in advance : 预先, 事先, 提前
• beforehand : adv.提前；预先；事先
• early : adj.早的；提早的；开始阶段的；开始时的；早期的；初期的；清早的；一大早的；在前的；前面的
• long ago : 很久前；很久以前；长久以前
• as early as : 尽早
• for a long time : phr.长时间

Form words with "早"

胎盘早剥 placental abruption

叫早电话 alarm call; wake-up call; morning call

从早至晚 from morning till night

Example phrases using "早"

• 没想到最懒的人倒起来得这么早。

  We had not expected that the laziest person of all would have got up so early.

• 他手脚不识闲儿，从早忙到晚。

  He toils day and night. / He can never stay idle.

• 我完全不认为那是早有预谋的。

  I don’t see it as planned at all.

• 农耕必须趁天时，早不得，晚不得。

  Farming should be done in season, neither too early nor too late.

• 人家早发话啦，不许咱再到这里来。

  They have warned us long before that we should not come here again.

• 她比我走得早，但不久我就赶上了她。

  She started before I did, but I caught up with her soon.

• 这样的坏习惯会使人早死。

  Such a bad habit will lead one to an early grave.

• 天时尚早，我去散会儿步。

  It’s still early and I’d love to take a walk.

• 他早在童年时就盛气凌人。

  He was domineering as a little boy.

• 这件事他们早打招呼了。

  They reminded us of this a while ago.