早
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Translingual
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Han character
早 (radical 72, 日+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 日十 (AJ), four-corner 60400, composition ⿱日十)
References
- KangXi: page 489, character 12
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13742
- Dae Jaweon: page 850, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1483, character 6
- Unihan data for U+65E9
Chinese
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Glyph origin
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Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) | ||
Bronze inscriptions | Chu Slip and silk script | Qin slip script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Characters in the same phonetic series (早) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
早 | *ʔsuːʔ |
草 | *sʰuːʔ |
愺 | *sʰuːʔ |
騲 | *sʰuːʔ |
皁 | *zuːʔ |
皂 | *zuːʔ |
Early bronze inscriptions: Pictogram (象形) – acorn. Original form of 皂 (OC *zuːʔ) (once also written as 草). Borrowed for "morning" sense.
Late bronze inscriptions: Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsuːʔ) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 棗 (OC *ʔsuːʔ), with 棗 sometimes simplified as 朿.
Small seal script: Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 日 (“sun”) + 甲 (“first”) – when the sun first rises.
In some In ancient texts, 蚤 (OC *ʔsuːʔ) was often used instead.
Etymology
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 *ɟa:wᶜ (“early morning”), whence Thai เช้า (cháao) and Lü ᦋᧁᧉ (tsaw2).
Pronunciation
Definitions
早
- early; in advance; soon
- long ago; for a long time
- (early) morning
- good morning
- before; in the past time
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 早安 (“good morning”) [map] | ||
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Variety | Location | Words |
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 早安 | |
Mandarin | Beijing | 早安, 早, 早上好 |
Taiwan | 早安, 早 | |
Liuzhou | 早晨 | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 早晨 |
Hong Kong | 早晨 | |
Foshan | 早晨 | |
Shunde | 早晨 | |
Zhongshan (Shiqi) | 早晨 | |
Doumen (Shangheng Tanka) | 早晨 | |
Taishan | 早晨 | |
Kaiping (Chikan) | 早晨 | |
Dongguan | 早晨 | |
Hakka | Meixian | 恁早 |
Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 恁早, 恁會早, 恁早萋 | |
Liudui (S. Sixian) | 恁早 | |
Hsinchu (Hailu) | 恁早, 恁會早, 恁早萋 | |
Dongshi (Dabu) | 恁早, 恁早萋 | |
Hsinchu (Raoping) | 恁早, 恁早萋 | |
Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 𠢕早, 堅早 | |
Sabah (Bao'an) | 早晨 | |
Min Nan | Xiamen | 𠢕早 |
Quanzhou | 𠢕早 | |
Zhangzhou | 𠢕早 | |
Taipei | 𠢕早 | |
Philippines (Manila) | 好早起 | |
Chaozhou | 眠起好 | |
Wu | Shanghai | 儂早 |
Compounds
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