首先

Pinyin: shǒuxiān

first of all; in the first place

🏮 Chinese HSK 4 adverbpronoun

Example sentence

首先,我跟本不知道为什么是这样的。

Shǒuxiān, wǒ gēn běn bù zhīdào wèishénme shì zhèyàng de.

At first, I had no idea why.

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What 首先 means

首先 (shǒuxiān) is a Chinese word meaning “first of all; in the first place”. It appears in the HSK 4 collection.

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Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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