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先民

xiān mín

2-character word

What 先民 means

1. forebears

The characters in 先民

• 先xiānbeforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now
• 民mín(bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country

Example sentences

• 以动物命名人的属相，是因为我们的先民与这些动物有密切关系。
  Yǐ dòngwù mìngmíng rén de shǔxiàng, shì yīnwèi wǒmen de xiānmín yǔ zhèxiē dòngwù yǒu mìqiè guānxi.
  Our ancestors used animals to name the years of people's births as their lives were closely connected to these animals.