She woke up in the early morning.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一大早
at dawn
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
at dawn
02
at first light
03
first thing in the morning
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一大早 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一大早 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
We are leaving early tomorrow morning.
I've been waiting for him since early this morning.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一大早.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一大早.
Directly before
- 她一大早2
- 明天一大早1
- 今天一大早1
- 他一大早1
- 王强一大早1
Directly after
- 一大早就4
- 一大早出发1
- 一大早起1
- 一大早出门1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 一大早
What does 一大早 mean in Chinese?
一大早 (yīdàzǎo) means at dawn.
How do you pronounce 一大早?
一大早 is pronounced yīdàzǎo.
Is 一大早 an HSK word?
一大早 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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