先

HSK 3#306 by frequencyradical 儿

xiān["d","g"]

first; in advance; early; prior; former

Examples

先到先得。

First come, first serve.

先谢谢了。

Thanks in advance.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.