先后先後

先后先後 in English

xiān hòu noun, adverb HSK5: early or late / first and last / priority / in succession / one after another

Character breakdown

先 xiān beforehand
后後 hòu back

Stroke order

Le caractère 先 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 先

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 后 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 后

Le caractère 後 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

先

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

后

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 10 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

他主张的是出生的先后次序和个性有很密切的关系。

His claim is that there is a close relation between birth order and personality.

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