尽早
jǐn​zǎo HSK7

as early as possible

尽 jǐn, jìn utmost Simplified

Simplified form of 盡. Depicts a hand (又) using a brush to scrub dishes (皿) clean after one is finished eating. The simplified character 尽 was derived from the cursive form of 盡.

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

烬荩赆

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

烬

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

早 zǎo early

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 棗 represents the sound. The form of the original phonetic component 棗 was abbreviated to look like 十.

Components

日
日 Meaning component
rì sun
棗
棗 Sound component
zǎo date tree
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 棗 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1)

草

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsawXNə.tsˤuʔ early

說文解字

《說文》：“早，晨也。从日在甲上。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

儘 utmost Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 盡 represents the sound.

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component
rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

盡
盡 Sound component
jǐn, jìn finish, exhaust

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode