早上
zǎo shang
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Morning, especially the early part when people get up. 早上好 is 'good morning', and 早上六点 is six in the morning. Like other time words it comes before the verb, on either side of the subject: 我早上喝茶 or 早上我喝茶. The second syllable has a neutral tone.
Sáng sớm, buổi sáng lúc mọi người mới thức dậy. 早上好 là “chào buổi sáng”. Buổi đứng trước giờ, ngược với tiếng Việt: 早上六点 là sáu giờ sáng. Như các từ chỉ thời gian khác, nó đứng trước động từ, trước hay sau chủ ngữ đều được.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “早上” mean?
Morning, especially the early part when people get up. 早上好 is 'good morning', and 早上六点 is six in the morning. Like other time words it comes before the verb, on either side of the subject: 我早上喝茶 or 早上我喝茶. The second syllable has a neutral tone.
Is “早上” formal or informal?
早上 is generally neutral.