ahead; previous; tip

Builds 46 distinct compound words — ranked #71 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: セン
訓 kun: さき

Ahead — which in time means earlier, not later. 先生 a teacher, one born before; 先週 last week, 先輩 a senior.

The ten most common compounds built on 先. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

46compounds built

1,775times those words occur

#106by productivity alone

#77by how often it turns up

Where 先 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 先. Each one opens its own map.

日sun; day先日#5 生life; born; raw先生#7 月moon; month先月#92

Words built on 先

先生せんせい945 uses

先週せんしゅう160 uses

先ずまず142 uses

先さき129 uses

先月せんげつ96 uses

先日せんじつ84 uses

先輩せんぱい13 uses

先約せんやく11 uses

優先ゆうせん10 uses

先頭せんとう10 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.