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早已

zǎo yǐ 3–3 → 2–3

for a long time; long since; (dialect) in the past

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
早 · 已
Syllables
2
zǎo yǐ
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 4,715

Part of speech: d

Character by character

  • 早zǎo6 strokesHSK 1early; soon; morning
  • 已yǐ3 strokesHSK 2already; finished; stop

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 早已. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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