早知今日何必当初 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 早知今日何必當初 zǎozhījīnrìhébìdāngchū ㄗㄠˇ ㄓ ㄐㄧㄣ ㄖˋ ㄏㄜˊ ㄅㄧˋ ㄉㄤ ㄔㄨ 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 Character by character 早(zǎo)early 知(zhī)know 今(jīn)now 日(rì)sun 何(hé)surname He 必(bì)certainly 当(dāng)dong 初(chū)at first A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0