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早 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 日十 (AJ), four-corner 60400, composition ⿱日十)
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Historical forms of the character 早 | ||||
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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 |
Early bronze inscriptions: Pictogram (象形) – acorn. Original form of 皂 (OC *zuːʔ) (once also written as 草 (cǎo)). Borrowed 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.
In some ancient texts, 蚤 (OC *ʔsuːʔ) was often used instead.
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).
早
Variety | Location | Words |
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Classical Chinese | 早 | |
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 早 | |
Mandarin | Beijing | 早 |
Taiwan | 早 | |
Jinan | 早 | |
Xi'an | 早 | |
Wuhan | 早 | |
Chengdu | 早 | |
Yangzhou | 早 | |
Hefei | 早 | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 早 |
Hong Kong | 早 | |
Yangjiang | 早 | |
Gan | Nanchang | 早 |
Hakka | Meixian | 早 |
Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 早 | |
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 早 | |
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 早 | |
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 早 | |
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 早 | |
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 早 | |
Jin | Taiyuan | 早 |
Northern Min | Jian'ou | 早 |
Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 早 |
Southern Min | Xiamen | 早 |
Chaozhou | 早 | |
Wu | Shanghai | 早 |
Suzhou | 早 | |
Wenzhou | 早 | |
Xiang | Changsha | 早 |
Shuangfeng | 早 |
Kanji in this term |
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早 |
はや Grade: 1 |
kun’yomi |
From Middle Chinese 早 (MC tsawX). Recorded as Middle Korean 조〯 (cwǒ) (Yale: cwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.
早: Hán Việt readings: tảo (
早: Nôm readings: tảo, chảo, tảu