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先人
xiān​rén

ancestors

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
先人 xiān​rén
ancestors
ancestors; forefathers; previous generations
deceased father
(literary) one's late father
ancients
(literary) people of ancient times; the ancients

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.660 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.72 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 祖先 zǔ​xiān
  • 古人 gǔ​rén

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)