先生

HSK 1#586 by frequencyradical 儿

xiān sheng["n"]

mister (Mr.); sir; gentleman; teacher; husband; (dialect) doctor

Measure word: 位

Examples

谢谢您，先生。

Thank you, sir.

这位是安田先生。

This is Mr Yasuda.

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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.