先前

xiān qián

HSK 5freq #7581

Meanings

CC-CEDICT

xiān qián

1.before; previously

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Wiktionary

1.before; previously
2.originally

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Stroke order

Components

先⺧儿

前䒑刖

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Characters

Example sentences

我們先前不知道要怎麼做，所以才求助。
We didn't know how to do it, so we asked for help.

Sentences from Tatoeba · CC-BY 2.0 FR

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