Early morning in Chinese
early morning · HSK 4
早晨
- 早 early
- 晨 morning
Counted with 个: 一个早晨
早晨的空气很新鲜。 The air is very fresh in the early morning.
Other ways to say early morning
More words with 早 or 晨
How do you say early morning in Chinese?
Early morning in Chinese is 早晨 (zǎo chen). You can also say 清晨 (qīng chén).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.