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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
- —先輩風air of seniority; patronizing attitude of a senior toward a junior
- —先進的advanced; pioneering; cutting-edge
- —先代萩Sendaihagi
- —先行車preceding vehicle; car ahead; vehicle in front
- —烏有先生fictitious person
- —公益優先public interest first
- —行の先頭beginning of line
- —先決問題question to be settled first; first consideration
- —先見の明foresight; prescience
- —先遣部隊advance troops; vanguard
- —先行技術prior art (patents)
- —先取得点first runs scored
- —先取特権statutory lien; preferential right; prior claim
- —先住民族indigenous people; aborigines; indigenes
- —先進兵器advanced weapon(ry)
- —先祖伝来inherited; family (heirloom); ancestral
- —先端技術high-technology
- —先天梅毒congenital syphilis
- —先頭打者lead-off man
- —先任将校senior officer