起早坐暗

Chinese

		to wake up early; early morning	to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, aeroplane, etc.)	dark; gloomy; hidden dark; gloomy; hidden; secret
trad. (起早坐暗)		起早	坐	暗
simp. #(起早坐暗)		起早	坐	暗
Literally: “get up early and still sit up when it's late”.

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khí-chá-chē-àm

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí-chá-chē-àm
    • Tâi-lô: khí-tsá-tsē-àm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qyzafzexaxm
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sa⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡se³³⁻²¹ am²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sa⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡se³³⁻¹¹ am¹¹/

Idiom

起早坐暗

1. (Hokkien) to work hard night and day; to burn the candle at both ends

Synonyms

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• 夙興夜寐 / 夙兴夜寐 (sùxīngyèmèi)
• 起早坐晏 (Hokkien)
• 起早坐酉 (Hokkien)
• 起早摸暗 (Hokkien)
• 起早摸黑 (qǐzǎomōhēi)
• 起早暝晏 (Puxian Min)
• 起早暝暗 (Puxian Min)
• 起早貪黑 / 起早贪黑 (qǐzǎomōhēi)
• 起早起晏 (Puxian Min)

References

• 東方孝義 (TŌHŌ Takayoshi) (1931) “起早坐暗”, in 臺日新辭書 [New Taiwanese–Japanese dictionary] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: 臺灣警察協會, page 157
• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “起早坐暗”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC