预先 yùxiān▶ sebelumnya

Stroke order

预先 is written in 16 strokes across 2 characters.

• 预 — 10 strokes
• 先 — 6 strokes

Related words

• 优先pertama
• 先前sebelumnya
• 先进maju
• 原先Asli
• 干预campur tangan
• 祖先Leluhur

预先 is pronounced yùxiān and means “sebelumnya”. HSK 6 places it in the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, the standardised measure of Chinese proficiency. There is a real difference between having seen 预先 and being able to use it, and cramming a list flatters the first while doing little for the second. LexiTrail shows you the word again at the point your recall of it is about to lapse.