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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

早些

zǎoxiē

a bit earlier

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

a bit earlier

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 早些 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 早些 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

为什么现在还没有睡?早些睡觉吧。wèi shén me xiàn zài hái méi yǒu shuì? zǎo xiē shuì jiào ba。

Why haven't you gone to sleep yet? You should go to sleep sooner.

想早些成为大学生呀。xiǎng zǎo xiē chéng wéi dà xué shēng ya。

No published English translation for this sentence.

早些年买的那个脱排油烟机过时了,所以我要换掉一个。zǎo xiē nián mǎi de nà ge tuō pái yóu yān jī guò shí le, suǒ yǐ wǒ yào huàn diào yí gè。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 早些.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 早些.

Directly before

  • 想早些1

Directly after

  • 早些年1
  • 早些成为1
  • 早些睡觉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 早些

What does 早些 mean in Chinese?

早些 (zǎoxiē) means a bit earlier.

How do you pronounce 早些?

早些 is pronounced zǎoxiē.

Is 早些 an HSK word?

早些 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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