IDENTITY
早zǎoearly; morning
HSK 1Top 480
CORE MEANING
early; morning
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.earlyHSK1
- 2.morning (greeting)HSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 日sun radical (rì)
- strokes
- 6
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱日十
- sun
- the sun above ten — daylight
USAGE
Common words
早上zǎoshangmorning
早饭zǎofànbreakfast
早晨zǎochenearly morning
Graded examples
明天早上见。Míngtiān zǎoshang jiàn.HSK1
See you tomorrow morning.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 旱
LEARNING
Memory aid
The sun (日) up at ten (十) — early.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #480
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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