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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

早起

zǎoqǐ

to get up early

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to get up early

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 早起 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 早起 appears in 36 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

他不早起。tā bù zǎo qǐ。

He does not get up early.

他没有早起。tā méi yǒu zǎo qǐ。

He did not get up early.

我习惯早起。wǒ xí guàn zǎo qǐ。

I'm used to getting up early.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 早起.

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

Directly before

  • 习惯早起6
  • 早上早起5
  • 不早起2
  • 每天早起2
  • 没有早起1

Directly after

  • 早起的3
  • 早起了3
  • 早起吗2
  • 早起上班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 早起

What does 早起 mean in Chinese?

早起 (zǎoqǐ) means to get up early.

How do you pronounce 早起?

早起 is pronounced zǎoqǐ.

Is 早起 an HSK word?

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

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