Kanji1 / 6
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
- —先般来for some time
- —優先株preferred stock; preference shares
- —優先権priority; preference; preferential right; right of way
- —急先鋒van (of a movement); vanguard; forefront
- —先鋭化radicalization; radicalisation; becoming a radical; intensification; aggravation; becoming acute; sharpening (e.g. of an image); narrowing (of a peak)
- —先生方doctors; teachers; lawyers
- —先着順order of arrival; first-come-first-served basis
- —高優先high priority
- —先行詞antecedent
- —優先席priority seat; courtesy seat; seat provided in trains, buses, etc. for the use of the disabled, young children, the elderly, pregnant women, etc.
- —鋭先形acuminate (i.e. sharp shape of leaf); apiculate
- —最優先maximum preference; maximum priority; priority handling
- —先輩面air of seniority; patronizing attitude
- —優先語preferred term
- —優先度priority level; degree of relative priority
- —先導性leadership
- —先導車lead car; leading car
- —先買権right of first refusal; (right of) preemption; purchase option
- —先取点first goal; first point
- —先行馬front runner