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Mythic Mandarin

早就 (zǎo jiù): meaning and stroke order

早就 (zǎo jiù) means already at an earlier time.

早就

Simplified
早就
Traditional
早就 (same form)
Pinyin
zǎo jiù

Stroke order of 早就

早

  • zǎo early; morning
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

就

  • jiù (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 早就

  1. zǎo jiù
    • already at an earlier time

Radicals of the characters

早
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 6 strokes · 日 on top, 十 below
就
Radical 尢 (Kangxi radical 43) · 12 strokes · 京 on the left, 尤 on the right

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.

早就 in our stories

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  • 原来他的膝盖上个月就受了伤，医生劝他休息，可他早就答应了组委会，不想让跟着气球的人找不到方向。

    yuánlái tā de xīgài shàng gè yuè jiù shòu le shāng yīshēng quàn tā xiūxi kě tā zǎojiù dāying le zǔwěihuì bù xiǎng ràng gēn zhe qìqiú de rén zhǎo bú dào fāngxiàng

    It turned out he had hurt his knee the month before and the doctor had told him to rest, but he had long since promised the organisers and didn't want the runners following his balloon to lose their way.

    From the story The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 早就

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).