早婚

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 早婚 is read そうこん and means marrying at a comparatively early age.
• Basic usage: It is used when discussing a fictional character's forced early marriage or the social effects of marriage timing.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Age and context
  • What counts as early in 早婚 depends on the period, social conventions, and context. Like its counterpart 晩婚(ばんこん), meaning late marriage, it describes timing without specifying a particular age by itself.