原先
yuán xiān
Pinyin

Definition

原先
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yuán xiān
  1. originally
  2. original
  3. former

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

先
xiān
  1. 1 early
  2. 2 prior
  3. 3 former
  4. 4 in advance
  5. 5 first
先生
Xiān sheng
  1. 1 Mister (Mr.)
原
Yuán
  1. 1 Hara (Japanese surname)
原来
yuán lái
  1. 1 original
  2. 2 former
  3. 3 originally
  4. 4 formerly
  5. 5 at first
  6. 6 so, actually, as it turns out
原因
yuán yīn
  1. 1 cause
  2. 2 origin
  3. 3 root cause
  4. 4 reason
  5. 5 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (20)

先下手为强
xiān xià shǒu wéi qiáng
  1. 1 strike first and gain the upper hand (idiom, martial arts term); Making the first move is an advantage.
先斩后奏
xiān zhǎn hòu zòu
  1. 1 first decapitate then present your trophy (idiom); act first, report later
先发制人
xiān fā zhì rén
  1. 1 to gain the initiative by striking first (idiom); to preempt
  2. 2 to anticipate
  3. 3 preemptive
先睹为快
xiān dǔ wéi kuài
  1. 1 joy of first experience (idiom)
  2. 2 the pleasure of reading sth for the first time
先礼后兵
xiān lǐ hòu bīng
  1. 1 peaceful measures before using force (idiom); diplomacy before violence
  2. 2 jaw-jaw is better than war-war

Sample Sentences

一般是，原先比较丑，比较坏，然后你把她说得很美，很好。
yībān shì ，yuánxiān bǐjiào chǒu ，bǐjiào huài ，ránhòu nǐ bǎ tā shuō de hěn měi ，hěn hǎo 。
It's usually that originally she's relatively ugly, relatively bad, and then you say she's very beautiful, very good.
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那麻烦就大了。我有个朋友，风水师硬叫他把厕所安到原先的书房里。书房哪有管道啊，这不是瞎搞嘛？
nà máfan jiù dà le 。wǒ yǒu ge péngyou ，fēngshuǐshī yìng jiào tā bǎ cèsuǒ āndào yuánxiān de shūfáng lǐ 。shūfáng nǎyǒu guǎndào a ，zhè bù shì xiāgǎo ma ？
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