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The kanji 先: meaning, readings and stroke order
先
- Meaning
- ahead, before
- On reading
- セン sen
- Kun reading
- さき saki
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 儿 legs
- Level
- Level 1 · grade 1
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- trước (tiên)
- Japanese
- さき。まえ。
- Korean
- 앞, 먼저 (선)
- Chinese
- 前面、先
Readings, words and example sentences
セン sen · on reading
先月
last month
先月から 学校が はじまりました。
School started last month.
さき saki · kun reading
先
ahead
この 先に 大きな 川が あります。
There is a big river up ahead.
Practise writing 先 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 先 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 1 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.