早就
zǎo jiù 3–4
already at an earlier time
- Characters
- 2
- 早 · 就
- Syllables
- 2
- zǎo jiù
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 2,223
Part of speech: d
Character by character
- 早zǎo6 strokesHSK 1early; soon; morning
- 就jiù12 strokesHSK 1just, simply; to come, go to; to approach, near
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 早就. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 就jiùHSK 1
(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after; (same as 是) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly; only; as little as; as much as; as many as; to approach; to move towards; to undertake; to engage in; (often followed by 着) taking advantage of; (of food) to go with; with regard to; concerning; (pattern: 就 ... 也 ...) even if ... still ...; (pattern: 不 ... 就 ...) if not ... then must be ...
- 就是jiù shìHSK 3
exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if
- 早zǎoHSK 1
early; morning; Good morning!; long ago; prematurely
- 就要jiù yàoHSK 2
will; shall; to be going to
- 早上zǎo shangHSK 1
early morning
- 早餐zǎo cānHSK 2
breakfast
- 就算jiù suànHSK 6
(coll.) even if
- 早晨zǎo chénHSK 2
early morning; also pr. [zǎo chen]
- 成就chéng jiùHSK 3
accomplishment; success; achievement; to achieve (a result); to create; to bring about
- 也就是说yě jiù shì shuōHSK 7
in other words; that is to say; so; thus
- 早已zǎo yǐHSK 3
for a long time; long since; (dialect) in the past
- 早期zǎo qīHSK 5
early period; early phase; early stage
- 一早yī zǎoHSK 7
early in the morning; at dawn
- 早饭zǎo fànHSK 1
breakfast
- 迟早chí zǎoHSK 7
sooner or later
- 一大早yī dà zǎoHSK 7
at dawn; at first light; first thing in the morning
- 就业jiù yèHSK 3
to get a job; employment
- 早晚zǎo wǎnHSK 6
morning and evening; (dialect) some time in the future; some day
- 早日zǎo rìHSK 7
soon; at an early date; the early days; the past
- 造就zào jiùHSK 7
to bring up; to train; to contribute to; achievements (usually of young people)
- 就是说jiù shì shuōHSK 6
in other words; that is
- 提早tí zǎoHSK 7
ahead of schedule; sooner than planned; to bring forward (to an earlier time)
- 尽早jǐn zǎoHSK 7
as early as possible
- 就读jiù dúHSK 7
to go to school