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Mythic Mandarin

一大早 (yī dà zǎo): meaning and stroke order

一大早 (yī dà zǎo) means at dawn, at first light, first thing in the morning.

一大早

Simplified
一大早
Traditional
一大早 (same form)
Pinyin
yī dà zǎo

Stroke order of 一大早

一

  • yī one; single
  • 1 stroke

Stroke by stroke

大

  • dà big; large; great; older (than another person)
  • dài see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

早

  • zǎo early; morning
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 一大早

  1. yī dà zǎo
    • at dawn
    • at first light
    • first thing in the morning

Radicals of the characters

一
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 1 stroke
大
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 3 strokes · built from 一 and 人
早
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 6 strokes · 日 on top, 十 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

一大早 in our stories

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  • 第二天一大早，苏菲就不见了。于航找了半天，才在厨房里找到她：她正跟邻居的阿婆学包汤圆，嘴里还一遍遍地念着什么。

    dì-èr tiān yídàzǎo Sūfēi jiù bú jiàn le Yú Háng zhǎo le bàntiān cái zài chúfáng lǐ zhǎodào tā tā zhèng gēn línjū de āpó xué bāo tāngyuán zuǐ lǐ hái yí biàn biàn de niàn zhe shénme

    Early the next morning Sophie had vanished. Yu Hang searched for ages before finding her in the kitchen, learning to make sweet rice dumplings from the old lady next door and repeating something under her breath.

    From the story An old bracelet HSK 6

Stories using 一大早

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).