if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus (idiom); to regret vainly one's past behavior
trad. 早知今日何必當初
Also written 早知今日何必當初【zǎo zhī jīn rì hé bì dāng chū】
Characters in this word
8早
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early, morning, Good morning!, long ago, prematurely
- Pinyin
- zǎo
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 715 of 2500
知
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to know, to be aware
- Pinyin
- zhī
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 3344 of 2500
今
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
now, the present time, current, contemporary, this (day, year etc)
- Pinyin
- jīn
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 4454 of 2500
日
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(bound form) sun, day, day of the month, (bound form) Japan (abbr. for 日本[Ri4 ben3]), (vulgar) to fuck; to have sex with
- Pinyin
- rì
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 723 of 2500
何
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surname He
- Pinyin
- Hé
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 7256 of 2500
必
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
certainly, must, will, necessarily
- Pinyin
- bì
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 9692 of 2500
当
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
(onom.) dong, ding dong (bell)
- Pinyin
- dāng
- Traditional
- 噹
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 145 of 2500
初
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(bound form) at first; initially, (bound form) first; early, (bound form) (in lunar calendar dates, before numerals 1–10) days 1 to 10 of a month, as in 初三[chu1 san1] "the third"
- Pinyin
- chū
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 5643 of 2500