jmdict 1400200 Active (id#2358915)
早起き [ichi1,news2,nf32] ； 早おき [sK] ； 早起 [sK]
【 はやおき [ichi1,news2,nf32] 】
  1. [n,vs,vi]
    • getting up early
    • early rising
  2. [n]
    • early riser
    • early bird
Conjugations
History:
    • A 2026-01-29 00:57:13 Robin Scott (id#2358915)
    • Comments
      I think this is sufficient for sense 2.
    • Diff
      @@ -33 +32,0 @@
-<gloss>someone who gets up early</gloss>
@@ -35 +33,0 @@
-<gloss>morning person</gloss>
    • A* 2026-01-28 13:30:08 Sombrero1 (id#2358859)
    • Comments
      I think "getting up early" is a better first gloss. 
It's more common (nowadays, in my experience), and "early rising" feels mildly formal or stiff to me.
It's also what the example sentence uses.
    • Refs
      │ 早起　　 │    11,400 │  0.5% │Smk; add; [sK]

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=getting+up+early,early+rising&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

Sankoku, Smk: 〈こと／人〉
    • Diff
      @@ -13,0 +14,4 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>早起</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
@@ -23,0 +28 @@
+<gloss>getting up early</gloss>
@@ -24,0 +30,7 @@
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<gloss>someone who gets up early</gloss>
+<gloss>early riser</gloss>
+<gloss>morning person</gloss>
+<gloss>early bird</gloss>
    • A 2026-01-10 21:50:35 Stephen Kraus (id#2357015)
    • Refs
      Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーー─┬───────────┬───────╮
│ 早起き　 │ 2,252,912 │ 97.4% │
│ 早おき　 │    19,877 │  0.9% │ - add
│ 早起　　 │    11,400 │  0.5% │
│ はや起き │       570 │  0.0% │
│ はやおき │    25,134 │  1.1% │
│ ハヤオキ │     2,378 │  0.1% │
╰─ーーーー─┴───────────┴───────╯
    • Diff
      @@ -8,0 +9,4 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>早おき</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
    • A 2021-11-18 01:25:29 Jim Breen
    • Comments
      Meikyo vt and vi additions to n,vs entries
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
    • Diff
      @@ -18,0 +19 @@
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
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