首先 (shǒuxiān) means In the first place (first of all). 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
首先 我要感谢大家。
Shǒuxiān wǒ yào gǎnxiè dàjiā.
First of all I want to thank everyone.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 首先
首先 要做的是准备材料。
Shǒuxiān yào zuò de shì zhǔnbèi cáiliào.
The first thing to do is prepare the documents.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 首先
首先 要健康，其次才是工作。
Shǒuxiān yào jiànkāng, qícì cái shì gōngzuò.
Health comes first, and work only second.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 其次
Questions about 首先
How is 首先 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 首先 (shǒuxiān, "In the first place (first of all)"), 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 首先 an HSK word?
Yes — 首先 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 首先?
The dictionary page for 首先 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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