先
Ancient forms
3 formsGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
xiān xian1
Example sentences
HSK words with 先
- 先生 xiānsheng teacher
- 首先 shǒuxiān first (of all)
- 领先 lǐngxiān to lead
- 先进 xiānjìn advanced (technology)
- 事先 shìxiān in advance
- 率先 shuàixiān to take the lead
- 优先 yōuxiān to have priority
- 原先 yuánxiān originally
- 先前 xiānqián before; previously
- 先后 xiānhòu early or late
- 先锋 xiānfēng vanguard
- 预先 yùxiān beforehand
- 祖先 zǔxiān ancestors; forebears
- 先例 xiānlì antecedent
- 先天 xiāntiān embryonic period (contrasted with 后天 [hòu tiān])
- 争先恐后 zhēngxiānkǒnghòu striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom); outdoing one another