先生 xiānsheng in a sentence
Mr (teacher - husband - doctor - sir)
先生 (xiānsheng) means Mr (teacher - husband - doctor - sir). Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
From the graded readers
我敲了门，开门的是一位老 先生 。
wǒ qiāo le / liǎo / liào mén, kāimén de / dì shì yī wèi lǎo xiānsheng.
I knocked, and an elderly man opened the door.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs
那位老 先生 跟我说：“我七年前开始的。我唯一后悔的是没有更早开始。”
nàiwèi lǎo xiānsheng gēn wǒ shuō:" wǒ qī niánqián kāishǐ de / dì. wǒ wéi / wěi yī hòuhuǐ de / dì shì méiyǒu gèng / gēng zǎo kāishǐ."
The elderly gentleman said to me, "I started seven years ago. My only regret is not starting sooner."
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
Questions about 先生
How is 先生 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 先生 (xiānsheng, "Mr (teacher - husband - doctor - sir)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 先生 an HSK word?
Yes — 先生 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 先生?
The dictionary page for 先生 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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