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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

早退

zǎotuì

to leave early (before the stipulated finishing time)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to leave early (before the stipulated finishing time)

02

to retire early (from one's job)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 早退 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 早退 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

他被批准早退。tā bèi pī zhǔn zǎo tuì。

He was granted permission to leave early.

我今天可以早退吗?wǒ jīn tiān kě yǐ zǎo tuì ma?

May I leave school early today?

我认为汤姆从来不会早退。wǒ rèn wéi tāng mǔ cóng lái bú huì zǎo tuì。

I think Tom never leaves early.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 早退.

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

Directly before

  • 可以早退1
  • 批准早退1
  • 会早退1

Directly after

  • 早退吗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 早退

What does 早退 mean in Chinese?

早退 (zǎotuì) means to leave early (before the stipulated finishing time).

How do you pronounce 早退?

早退 is pronounced zǎotuì.

Is 早退 an HSK word?

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

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