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先 kanji
before, ahead, previous, future, precedence
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
セン
Kun readings
さきまず
Words with 先
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —先手を取るto take the initiative
- —先手を打つto forestall; to beat to the punch; to anticipate; to play the first move (e.g. in go)
- —先例に倣うto follow precedent
- —歩行者優先priority to pedestrians
- —先生に就くto study under a teacher
- —先祖の位牌ancestral tablet
- —先端支持力end bearing capacity
- —工業先進国industrialized countries; industrialised countries
- —先天的障害birth defect
- —先発明主義first-to-invent principle (in patent law); first-to-invent system
- —先週の今日this day last week; a week ago today
- —先進工業国advanced industrial nation
- —担任の先生class teacher; homeroom teacher; home room teacher; form teacher
- —先端巨大症acromegaly
- —先土器時代preceramic period
- —先縄文時代pre-Jomon period (i.e. the preceramic period)
- —先行パッドleading pad
- —先進ユーザadvanced user
- —先祖構造体ancestor structure
- —先頭の空白leading whitespace