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(zǎo shàng hǎo) - good morning in Mandarin

zǎoshànghǎo

Traditional: 早上好

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Translation

good morning

Word origin

早上好 (zǎoshàng hǎo) 'good morning' is the phrase 早上 'morning' plus 好 (hǎo, 'good'). 好 is an ideographic compound of 女 (nǚ, 'woman') and 子 (zǐ, 'child'), a woman with a child taken to express 'good'.

Origin
compound
Root
早 (early) + 上 (above) + 好 (女 woman + 子 child, 'good')

Stroke order

Stroke order for 早

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Examples

Good morning, teacher!

Good morning, the weather is lovely today.

Good morning, did you sleep well?

She smiled and said good morning to me.

早上好 (zǎo shàng hǎo) means good morning.

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This word is part of lesson 20.