early / morning / Good morning! / long ago / prematurely

= + : Mnemonic symbol: your very own annoying alarm clock going off in the morning.

The sun (日) is rising above Zorro's (z) alarm clock (早) in the aorta's living room (ao3), but Zorro just smashs it with a big cross (十).

早 character breakdown

ten / 10

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a holy cross. Sherlock Holmes (sh-) is investigating a very strange thing he found in the kitchen of the space station (-2): A big pyramid made of ten (十) crosses (十), which are in turn made out of flutes (一) and dinosaur bones (丨).
abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3], Japan
sun / day / date, day of the month

= + : Robinson Crusoe (r) is hiding from the sun (日) in an enclosure (囗) full of flutes (一) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4).

Characters with 早 as component

surname Qin
surname Tan
deep
writing brush / writing / pen

= + + + : Hamlet (h) and Neanderthal Man (人) are taking part in a calligraphy competition in the anthill's bathroom (an4). Each of them has exactly one minute to write a Chinese character, with the minute being measured by an alarm clock (早). Hamlet has a big advantage though: he might use a proper writing brush (翰) while Neanderthal Man only has an ordinary feather (羽). As Neanderthal Man notices he is going to loose he is so angry that he crushes the alarm clock with a huge cross (十).
surname Han

= + + + : Hamlet (h) and Neanderthal Man (人) are taking part in a calligraphy competition in the anthill's bathroom (an4). Each of them has exactly one minute to write a Chinese character, with the minute being measured by an alarm clock (早). Hamlet has a big advantage though: he might use a proper writing brush (翰) while Neanderthal Man only has an ordinary feather (羽). As Neanderthal Man notices he is going to loose he is so angry that he crushes the alarm clock with a huge cross (十).

Words with 早

early in the morning / at dawn
at dawn / at first light / first thing in the morning
as early as possible
early in the morning
if you live a life of crime, sooner or later you'll pay for it
South China Morning Post (newspaper in Hong Kong)
erhua variant of 一大早[yi1 da4 zao3]
at dawn / early in the morning
arriving early can't beat coming at the right time / perfect timing

Sentences with 早

wǒ
men
dà
wáng
zǎo
fe̅i
chu̅
shí
wàn
ba̅
qia̅n
lǐ
le