先
Meanings
Noun
1. point; tip; end; nozzle
2. head (of a line); front
3. first; before; ahead (of)
4. (the way) ahead; beyond
Noun
No-adjective
5. future
No-adjective
Noun
6. previous; prior; former; recent; last
Noun
Suffix
7. destination; address; place where you do something
Noun
8. rest (e.g. of a story); continuation; remaining part
9. the other party
Other spellings
前先き
Kanji used
Kanji in other spellings
Pitch accent
さき
Used in vocabulary
先に
previously; before; earlier; formerly; recently; first; before (something or someone else); ahead (of); beforehand; in advance; …
Adverb
先駆け
pioneer; leader; taking the initiative; forerunner; harbinger; herald; leading an attack; charging ahead of others (towards the enemy)
Noun
先取り
receiving in advance (e.g. wages, interest); taking before others; anticipation; being ahead of (e.g. the times); prefetch; anticipatory completion (i.e. finishing another's sentence)
Noun
Examples118
先
You never can tell what'll happen in the future.
それから
I'd like to know the rest of the story.
この
This train stops at every station from Nakano on.
鉛筆
The point of the pencil has become dull.
で、
And so it seems she tried phoning but it's who was on the other end of that phone that was the problem.
二人
The taller of the two men went out first.