Jisho

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早

6 strokes
Radical:
sun, day 日
Parts:
十 日
early, fast
Kun:
はや.い、 はや、 はや-、 はや.まる、 はや.める、 さ-
On:
ソウ、 サッ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
402 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 早急 【サッキュウ】 immediate, prompt, quick, rapid, urgent, pressing
  • 早朝 【ソウチョウ】 early morning
  • 時期尚早 【ジキショウソウ】 premature
  • 早々 【ソウソウ】 as soon as..., just after..., immediately after..., hurriedly, in haste, quickly, promptly, early
  • 早速 【サッソク】 at once, immediately, without delay, promptly
  • 早急 【サッキュウ】 immediate, prompt, quick, rapid, urgent, pressing

Kun reading compounds

  • 早い 【はやい】 fast, quick, hasty, brisk, early (in the day, etc.), premature, (too) soon, not yet, (too) early, easy, simple, quick
  • 早い話が 【はやいはなしが】 in short, in a nutshell, in a word, to cut a long story short
  • 早 【はや】 already, now, by this time
  • 甲矢 【はや】 arrow with feathers that curve to the left (the first of two arrows to be fired)
  • 最早 【もはや】 already, now, no longer, not any more
  • 早々 【はやはや】 quickly
  • 早まる 【はやまる】 to move ahead (three hours, etc.), to move up, to quicken, to speed up, to gather speed, to be hasty, to be rash
  • 早める 【はやめる】 to hasten, to quicken, to expedite, to precipitate, to accelerate

Readings

Japanese names:
さか、 さわ、 そ、 わ
Chinese:
zao3
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • temprano
  • rápido
  • pronto
  • apresurarse
  • precipitarse
  • acelerar

Portuguese

  • cedo
  • rápido

French

  • tôt
  • rapide
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