Character Details
| first; ahead; early | Ascii: — | w117 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 先 | xiān | tsee:en | 1 | 牛 (cow) + 儿 (legs) → first | 先 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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I've never seen a cow with human legs before! | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
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| - After you! | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 8 - 儿 | ér | child r | legs, child | legs shape | 儿 兄 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 牛 (cow) + 儿 (legs) → first | 儿 (semantic: person) | 牛 (phonetic origin) | ancient form had 牛 | ||||||||