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  *早* | 早* | *早
early / morning / Good morning! / long ago / prematurely
HSK 1
breakfast / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
early morning / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
already at an earlier time
HSK 2
breakfast / CL: , 頓|顿,
HSK 2
early morning / CL: 個|个 / also pr. [zao3chen5]
HSK 2
for a long time; long since / (dialect) in the past
HSK 3
early period; early phase; early stage
HSK 5
morning and evening / (in reference to sth that is bound to happen) sooner or later; one of these days / (coll.) (this, or that) point of time / (dialect) at some time in the future
HSK 6
soon; at an early date / the early days; the past
HSK 7-9
many years ago; in the past / in one's early years
HSK 7-9
to end one's suffering by dying quickly and being reincarnated / (fig.) to get it over with
(skincare regimen) Vitamin C in the morning, Vitamin A in the evening (original meaning) / (jocular) coffee in the morning, alcohol in the evening
to get up early
breakfast
precocious; early-maturing
morning newspaper
early to bed, early to rise; to keep early hours
to arrive early
to leave early and return late (idiom)
early demise / untimely death
give birth to a son soon (propitiatory compliment to newlyweds)
to die young
early autumn
matins / morning service (in the Catholic Church) / morning chorus (of birds)
one's early years
early shift; morning work shift
previously / before
early spring
morning market
Good morning!
to have a premature birth
to age prematurely / premature senescence
to leave early (before the stipulated finishing time) / to retire early (from one's job)
morning exercises (physical exercises commonly performed en masse at schools and workplaces in East Asian countries)
to marry too early
premature ejaculation
morning tea
previously
early season rice / rice at transplanting or still unripe
brunch
Good morning!
to recover health quickly; Get well soon!
early frost
Waseda University (private university in Tokyo)
(coll.) as soon as possible; as early as one can
early education (abbr. for 早期教育)
teenage pregnancy / early stage of pregnancy
If I had known earlier...
(medicine) premature beat; extrasystole
to know in advance
a bit earlier
morning bus / early train
brunch
erhua variant of 早班
if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus (idiom) / to regret vainly one's past behavior
(literary) to die young; to pass away prematurely
morning erection
as early as
morning show (at a theater or cinema); matinee
to be in love when one is too young; puppy love
to plant early; to sow seeds in early spring
preschool group for kids aged three or less / (Tw) work shift starting around daybreak
to die while still relatively young / to have been dead (for some years)
(coll.) Alzheimer's disease
presenilins
(Tw) early bird discount
(Tw) early bird ticket
a bit earlier


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