HSK 2 · Time

早上 zǎoshang “morning” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 早上 means

  1. morning
  2. early morning

Measure word 个 gè · 一个早上 yí ge zǎoshang

How to say 早上

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale早zǎo3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own上shangneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

早上 in a sentence

  1. 早上八点叫我起床吧。

    Zǎoshang bā diǎn jiào wǒ qǐchuáng ba.

    Wake me up at eight in the morning.

    Sentence #5953326 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 今天早上很冷。

    Jīntiān zǎoshang hěn lěng.

    It was very cold this morning.

    Sentence #859151 from Tatoeba

  3. 我习惯早上洗澡。

    Wǒ xíguàn zǎoshang xǐzǎo.

    I usually have a shower in the morning.

    Sentence #1516224 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 早上 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 早 (zǎo) with each of its parts in a different colour
早zǎoearly
  • 日sun · rì
  • 十ten · shí
The character 上 (shàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
上shǎngup; upper; above; previouslight in 早上
  • ⺊divination form of 卜 · bǔ
  • 一one · yī

Memory aidA short stroke above the line: up, on top.

How to write 早上

早 6 strokes · 上 3 strokes

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早上 (zǎoshang) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 早上 (zǎoshang). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 早上

Words with 早

早zǎo · early早饭zǎofàn · breakfast迟早chízǎo · sooner or later及早jízǎo · as early as possible

Words with 上

上shàng · up上午shàngwǔ · morning (forenoon)上课shàngkè · to go to class上学shàngxué · to go to school晚上wǎnshang · evening上班shàngbān · to go to work上面shàngmiàn · above路上lùshang · on the road上来shànglái · to come up上去shàngqù · to go up

More words: Time

去年qùnián · last year日rì · day生日shēngrì · birthday小时xiǎoshí · hour晚上wǎnshang · evening时间shíjiān · time一起yìqǐ · together已经yǐjīng · already

FAQs

早上 (zǎoshang) means “morning” or “early morning”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it zǎoshang: zǎo with a 3rd tone, then shang with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 早上 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one morning is 一个早上 (yí ge zǎoshang).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zaoshang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 早上 from the suggestions. Typing zaoshang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
早上 is an HSK 2 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.