| 早 | zǎo | early; morning; Good morning! |
| 早已 | zǎo yǐ | long ago; for a long time |
| 早期 | zǎo qī | early period; early phase; early stage |
| 早晨 | zǎo chén | early morning; CL:个 |
| 早日 | zǎo rì | soon; shortly; on a day quite soon; promptly |
| 早上 | zǎo shang | early morning; CL:个 |
| 早稻 | zǎo dào | early season rice; rice at transplanting or still unripe |
| 早晚 | zǎo wǎn | morning and evening; sooner or later |
| 早点 | zǎo diǎn | light breakfast |
| 早熟 | zǎo shú | precocious; early-maturing |
| 早年 | zǎo nián | early years; adolescence |
| 早饭 | zǎo fàn | breakfast; CL:份,顿,次,餐 |
| 早春 | zǎo chūn | early spring |
| 早先 | zǎo xiān | previously; before |
| 早起 | zǎo qǐ | to get up early |
| 早衰 | zǎo shuāi | premature senility |
| 早秋 | zǎo qiū | early autumn |
| 早餐 | zǎo cān | breakfast; CL:份,顿,次 |
| 早操 | zǎo cāo | morning exercises (physical exercises commonly performed en masse at schools and workplaces in East Asian countries) |
| 早霜 | zǎo shuāng | early frost |
| 早上好 | zǎo shang hǎo | Good morning! |
| 早些 | zǎo xiē | a bit earlier |
| 早亡 | zǎo wáng | premature death |
| 早来 | zǎo lái | to come early; already; early |
| 早出晚归 | zǎo chū wǎn guī | to leave early and return late (idiom) |
| 早前 | zǎo qián | previously |
早动手，
早收获 | zǎo dòng shǒu ,
zǎo shōu huò | the sooner you set to work, the sooner you'll reap the rewards (idiom) |
| 早在 | zǎo zài | as early as |
| 早报 | zǎo bào | morning newspaper |
| 早场 | zǎo chǎng | morning show (at theater); matinee |
| 早婚 | zǎo hūn | to marry too early |
| 早安 | zǎo ān | Good morning! |
| 早就 | zǎo jiù | already at an earlier time |
| 早市 | zǎo shì | morning market |
| 早恋 | zǎo liàn | puppy love |
| 早播 | zǎo bō | to plant early; to sow seeds in early spring; early sowing |
| 早日康复 | zǎo rì kāng fù | Get well soon!; to recover health quickly |
| 早早儿 | zǎo zǎor | as soon as possible; as early as one can |
| 早期效应 | zǎo qī xiào yìng | early effect |
| 早岁 | zǎo suì | early years; adolescence |
| 早死 | zǎo sǐ | early demise; untimely death |
| 早泄 | zǎo xiè | premature ejaculation |
| 早班 | zǎo bān | early shift; morning work shift |
| 早班儿 | zǎo bānr | early shift; morning work shift |
| 早生贵子 | zǎo shēng guì zǐ | give birth to a son soon (propitiatory compliment to the newly-weds) |
| 早产 | zǎo chǎn | premature birth; premature labor |
| 早知 | zǎo zhī | foresight; foreknowledge; if one had known earlier,... |
| 早知今日何必当初 | zǎo zhī jīn rì hè bì dāng chū | if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus (idiom); to regret vainly one's past behaviour |
| 早知道 | zǎo zhī dao | If I had known earlier... |
| 早稻田大学 | Zǎo dào tián Dà xué | Waseda University (private university in Tokyo) |
