原先

原先 yuánxiān in a sentence

Original (former)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

原先 (yuánxiān) means Original (former). Below are 2 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

他比 原先 胖了一些。

Tā bǐ yuánxiān pàng le yìxiē.

He is a little heavier than before.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 原先

原先 的计划已经改了。

Yuánxiān de jìhuà yǐjīng gǎi le.

The original plan has been changed.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 原先

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How is 原先 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 原先 (yuánxiān, "Original (former)"), 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 原先 an HSK word?

Yes — 原先 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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The dictionary page for 原先 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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