早
zǎo HSK1

early

早 zǎo
morning noun
(bound form) the early part of the day; morning

他从早工作到晚。

tā cóng zǎo gōng​zuò dào wǎn.

He works from morning until night.

early adjectiveadverb
early in a period of time; at an initial stage; earlier than a scheduled or expected time

我们比你们开始得早。

wǒ​men bǐ nǐ​men kāi​shǐ de zǎo.

We started earlier than you.

圣诞节买东西永远不会太早。

shèng​dàn​jié mǎi dōng​xi yǒng​yuǎn bù​huì tài zǎo.

It’s never too early to shop for Christmas.

long ago adverb
happened a long time ago; already; for a long time

很早以前我就爱上了他。

hěn zǎo yǐ​qián wǒ jiù ài shang le tā.

I fell in love with him long ago.

这个蛋糕很早以前就烤好了。

zhè​ge dàn​gāo hěn zǎo yǐ​qián jiù kǎo hǎo le.

This cake was baked long ago.

prematurely adjectivenoun
before the proper or expected time
good morning
a greeting used when meeting someone in the morning
surname
a Chinese surname

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Frequency
Character
Written text
462nd most common 463.2 per million
Movie subtitles
296th most common 558.5 per million appears in 91% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
363.2 per million appears in 73% of films
Written text
204.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+65E9

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)