先前 xiānqián▶ sebelumnya

Stroke order

先前 is written in 15 strokes across 2 characters.

• 先 — 6 strokes
• 前 — 9 strokes

Related words

• 优先pertama
• 先进maju
• 前提prasyarat
• 前景prospek
• 原先Asli
• 当前arus

先前 is pronounced xiānqián and means “sebelumnya”. It belongs to the HSK 6 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 先前 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.