(zuó) - yesterday (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
zuóTraditional: 昨
Translation
yesterday (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the sun radical 日 marks it as a word about days and time, while 乍 (zhà) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 日 (sun radical) + 乍 (zhà, phonetic)
Stroke order
昨
Examples
。
Yesterday I went to the library.
？
Did you sleep well last night?
。
Yesterday's meeting was very interesting.
雨。
A heavy rain fell last night.
。
I just received his letter yesterday.
昨 (zuó) is a bound morpheme meaning yesterday, found in 昨天 (zuó tiān) "yesterday" and 昨晚 (zuó wǎn) "last night".
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 昨.
Used in
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