早敨

Chinese

		early	to rest
simp. and trad. (早敨)		早	敨
alternative forms		早㪗 早唞 早抖

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zou² tau²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zou² tau²
    • Yale: jóu táu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzou² tau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: zou² teo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sou̯³⁵ tʰɐu̯³⁵/

Verb

早敨 (Cantonese)

1. to go to bed early; to sleep early

   • 要長春不老　早起早唞就最好 [Cantonese, trad.]
     要长春不老　早起早唞就最好 [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 許冠傑, 《長春不老》 / 《长春不老》

     jiu³ coeng⁴ ceon¹ bat¹ lou⁵, zou² hei² zou² tau² zau⁶ zeoi³ hou² [Jyutping]

     If you want to be eternally young, it's best to get up early and go to sleep early

Interjection

早敨 (Cantonese)

1. good night; have a good night
2. shut up; drop dead; go away; go to hell (using sleep as a metaphor of death)

   • 用幾百萬，買兩個位，早敨啦！ [Hong Kong Cantonese, trad.]
     用几百万，买两个位，早敨啦！ [Hong Kong Cantonese, simp.]

     From: Leung Kwok-hung, after the announcement of the 2008 Hong Kong legislative election results in New Territories East^[1]

     jung⁶ gei² baak³ maan⁶, maai⁵ loeng⁵ go³ wai^6-2, zou² tau² laa¹! [Jyutping]

     Spending million of dollars only to win two seats? Shut up!

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 晚安 (“good night”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		晚安
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	晚安
	Taiwan	晚安
	Malaysia	晚安
	Singapore	晚安
Cantonese	Guangzhou	早敨, 早啲敨
	Hong Kong	早敨
	Foshan	早敨
	Foshan (Shunde)	早敨
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	早敨
	Taishan	早啲瞓
	Kaiping (Chikan)	早啲瞓
	Dongguan	早敨
	Penang (Guangfu)	早敨
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	暗安
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	暗安
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	暗安
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	暗安
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	暗安
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	暗安
Eastern Min	Singapore (Fuqing)	晚安, 早滴囝歇
Southern Min	Tainan	暗安 GT
	Manila (Hokkien)	好暗暝, 睏好好
Wu	Shanghai	谷拿脫
Note	GT - General Taiwanese