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早逝

zǎo shì

2-character word

What 早逝 means

1. early demise
2. untimely death

The characters in 早逝

• 早zǎoearly; morning; Good morning!
• 逝shì(of flowing water or time) to pass by; to pass away; to die

Example sentences

• 英年早逝。
  Yīngniánzǎoshì.
  Whom the gods love die young.

Words containing 早逝

• 英年早逝yīng nián zǎo shìto die an untimely death (idiom); to be cut off in one's prime

Sounds the same

Read zǎo shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 早市morning market