早出晚归 — Chinese idiom
早出晚归
zǎo chū wǎn guī
Traditional: 早出晚歸
Meaning
- to leave early and return late
Character by character
- 早zǎoearly; soon; morning
- 出chūto go out, to send out; stand; produce
- 晚wǎnnight, evening; late
- 归guīto return, to go back; to return to, to revert
Idioms sharing a character
- 英年早逝 yīng nián zǎo shì
- 仓皇出逃 cāng huáng chū táo
- 倾巢而出 qīng cháo ér chū
- 出乎意外 chū hū yì wài
- 出乎意料 chū hū yì liào
- 出乎预料 chū hū yù liào
- 出人意外 chū rén yì wài
- 出人意料 chū rén yì liào
- 出人头地 chū rén tóu dì
- 出其不意 chū qí bù yì
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