起早坐晏

Chinese

		to wake up early; early morning	to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, aeroplane, etc.)	late; quiet
trad. (起早坐晏)		起早	坐	晏
simp. ^#(起早坐晏)		起早	坐	晏
Literally: “get up early and still sit up when it's late”.

Pronunciation

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

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khí-chá-chē-òaⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: khí-tsá-tsē-uànn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qyzafzex'voax
  - IPA (Taipei): /kʰi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sa⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡se³³⁻¹¹ uã¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sa⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡se³³⁻²¹ uã²¹/

Idiom

起早坐晏

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

Synonyms

夙興夜寐 / 夙兴夜寐 (sùxīngyèmèi)
起早坐暗 (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

小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “起早坐晏”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC