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先后

xiān hòu

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 先後

先后 (xiān hòu) means "early or late; priority; in succession". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 先后 means

1. early or late; first and last; priority
2. in succession; one after another

The characters in 先后

• 先xiānbeforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now
• 后hòuempress; queen; (archaic) monarch

Example sentences

• 他主张的是出生的先后次序和个性有很密切的关系。
  Tā zhǔzhāng de shì chūshēng de xiānhòu cìxù hé gèxìng yǒu hěn mìqiè de guānxi.
  His claim is that there is a close relation between birth order and personality.

Words starting with 先后

• 先后顺序xiān hòu shùn xùsequential order

Words containing 先后

• 按时间先后àn shí jiān xiān hòuchronological

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