Illustration: A neighborhood soba shop’s owner is still raising the entrance shutter when the first customer ducks beneath it and eagerly takes the nearest counter seat. The owner keeps one hand on the shutter strap and turns in surprise as the customer already reaches for chopsticks.

JLPT N1suffixLevel estimated by Bebop

早そう々そう

sousou

early in, soon after

Follows a time or event noun. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 妹いもうとは来年らいねん早々そうそうに結婚けっこんします。

    My sister will marry early next year.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 仕事しごとの初日しょにち早々そうそう、へまをやらかした。

    First day on the job, and I already messed up.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 着任ちゃくにん早々そうそうの課題かだいは、ワッパ騒動そうどうと呼よばれる農民抗議のうみんこうぎへの対策たいさくであった。

    The immediate issue he had to attend when he was appointed to the post was to take a measure towards Wappa Disturbance, which was a protest of peasants.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 早々

  • 早early; fastOnソウ・サッKunはやい・はや・はや-

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