Character Details
| Mr.: husband | Ascii: — | w594 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 先生 | xiānsheng | tsee:en-shung | 1+5 | 做 (亻 person radical + 故 reason) + 菜 (艹 grass radical + 采 pick) | 先生 link | ||||||
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| left‑right; noun | 先 (horn + person) + 生 (life) | ||||||||||
| The one who goes first (先) in life (生) — gentleman. | |||||||||||