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早就

zǎojiù

long ago already

A person waiting by an hourglass
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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

就 jiù

Strokes
12
Radical
尢 — weak, lame
Made of
京 capital city 尤 especially, particularly
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 我早就来了。 Wǒ zǎojiù lái le. I came long ago.
  • 他早就知道。 Tā zǎojiù zhīdào. He knew long ago.
  • 饭早就好了。 Fàn zǎojiù hǎo le. The food was ready long ago.

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