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早晚

zǎo wǎn

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

早晚 (zǎo wǎn) means "morning and evening; (dialect) some time in the future; some day". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 早晚 means

1. morning and evening
2. (in reference to sth that is bound to happen) sooner or later; one of these days
3. colloquial(this, or that) point of time
4. dialectat some time in the future

The characters in 早晚

• 早zǎoearly; morning; Good morning!
• 晚wǎnevening; night; late

Example sentences

• 人早晚会死。
  Rén zǎowǎn huìsǐ.
  Man will die sooner or later.
• 我们早晚要死。
  We shall die sooner or later.
• 我今早晚了起床。
  Wǒ jīn zǎowǎn le qǐchuáng.
  I got up late this morning.
• 他们早晚会发现的。
  Tāmen zǎowǎn huì fāxiàn de.
  They will find out sooner or later.
• 这债她早晚要还的。
  She will pay for this.
• 他早晚会全告诉我的。
  Sooner or later he will tell me everything.

Words containing 早晚

• 多早晚duō zǎo wǎnwhen?
• 这早晚儿zhè zǎo wǎn rnow; at this time; this late
• 丑媳妇早晚要见公婆chǒu xí fù zǎo wǎn yào jiàn gōng pó(lit.) the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (proverb)…

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