先
先 — seon
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 먼저 선
- Romanization
- seon
- English
- first, former, previous
- Mandarin
- xiān
- Japanese on'yomi
- セン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- さき ま.ず
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #173 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 儿 (10, 4 residual)
- Unicode
- U+5148
Words written with 先
- 행선行先 가는 곳
- 선통先通 미리 알림
- 선군先軍 군이 우선함
- 선대先代 조상의 세대
- 선령先靈 선조의 영혼
- 선묘先墓 조상의 무덤
- 선민先民 선대의 사람
- 선산先山 조상의 무덤
- 선세先世 조상의 세대
- 선왕先王 선대의 임금
- 선객先客 먼저 온 손님
- 선등先等 남보다 먼저 함
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 先
- 先月せんげつ last month
- 先生せんせい teacher; instructor; master
- 先進国せんしんこく developed country; advanced country
- 優先ゆうせん preference; priority; precedence
- 先発せんぱつ starting in advance; starting first; going first
- 先にさきに previously; before; earlier
- 先頭せんとう head (of a line, group, etc.); front; lead
- 先進せんしん advanced; developed; seniority
- 先週せんしゅう last week; the week before
- 先輩せんぱい senior (at school, work, etc.); superior; elder
- 先行せんこう going ahead; going first; preceding
- 先日せんじつ the other day; a few days ago
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Other hanja read “선”
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