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早就

zǎo jiù

HSK 2 · word 1182 of 3,000

Meaning

• already at an earlier time

Example sentence

Characters in 早就

• 早 zǎo early
• 就 jiù (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then

早 early plus 就, already then. Long since, and it carries a note of surprise that it needed saying.

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