Morning in Chinese
morning · HSK 1
上午
- 上 up
- 午 noon
Counted with 个: 一个上午
我明天上午有两节课。 I have two classes tomorrow morning.
Other ways to say morning
More words with 上 or 午
How do you say morning in Chinese?
Morning in Chinese is 上午 (shàng wǔ). You can also say 早上 (zǎo shang), 早晨 (zǎo chen), 早 (zǎo), 朝 (zhāo).
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.