早
Meanings
CC-CEDICT
- 1.early
- 2.morning
- 3.Good morning!
- 4.long ago
- 5.prematurely
CC-CEDICT · CC BY-SA
Wiktionary
- 1.early; in advance; soon
- 2.long ago; for a long time
- 3.morning
- 4.good morning
- 5.before; in the past time
- 6.breakfast
- 7.a surname
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Etymology
Early bronze inscriptions: Pictogram (象形) – acorn. Original form of 皂 (OC *zuːʔ) through an intermediate variant 皁 (once also written as 草 (cǎo)). Borrowed phonetically for "morning" sense. Late bronze inscriptions: Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔsuːʔ): semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 棗 (OC *ʔsuːʔ), with 棗 sometimes simplified as 朿. Small seal script: Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 日 (“sun”) + 甲 (“first”) – when the sun first rises. However, Xu Shen's interpretation is not based on oracle bones and bronzes inscriptions. In some ancient texts, 蚤 (OC *ʔsuːʔ) was often used instead. Unrelated to the ancient version of 是: in this character, it doesn't represent an acorn but a spoon. Possible cognate found in Proto-Hmong-Mien *ntsi̯ouˣ (“early”), whence White Hmong ntxov and Iu Mien nziou (Baxter and Sagart, 2014; Schuessler, 2007), and Proto-Tai *ɟaːwꟲ (“early morning”), whence Thai เช้า (cháao) and Lü ᦋᧁᧉ (tsaw²). Note also similarities to Burmese စော (cau:, “early”).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
還早呢。
It's still early.
太早了。
It's so early.
太早了。
It's too early.
太早了。
It's too soon.
我起得早。
I woke up early.
我起床早。
I got up early.
Sentences from Tatoeba · CC-BY 2.0 FR
More examples & usage (AI)
Synonyms
Antonyms
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Derived terms
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA