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早晨

zǎochén

morning

HSK 2 · Topic “Time and dates”
A person stretching at sunrise
Memory picture

Characters in this word

早 zǎo

Strokes
6
Radical
日 — sun
Made of
日 sun 十 ten, tenth
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

晨 chén

Strokes
11
Radical
日 — sun
Made of
日 sun 辰 early morning
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 晨

Example phrases

  • 早晨很冷。 Zǎochén hěn lěng. The morning is cold.
  • 早晨起床。 Zǎochén qǐ chuáng. I get up in the morning.
  • 早晨有雨。 Zǎochén yǒu yǔ. It rains in the morning.

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