先
Pinyin: xiān
first
Example sentence
你先走，我马上来。
Nǐ xiān zǒu, wǒ mǎshàng lái.
You go first, I'm coming right away.
What 先 means
先 (xiān) is a Chinese word meaning “first”. It belongs to the Grammar Words topic and appears at HSK 3 (and again in HSK 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.