领先 lǐngxiān▶ dẫn đầu

Stroke order

领先 is written in 17 strokes across 2 characters.

• 领 — 11 strokes
• 先 — 6 strokes

Senses

1. to lead
2. to be in front

Related words

• 优先đầu tiên
• 先前trước đây
• 先进Nâng cao; tiên tiến
• 占领chiếm; ở
• 原先Nguyên bản; ban đầu
• 带领dẫn dắt; chì

领先 is pronounced lǐngxiān and means “dẫn đầu”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 领先 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.