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先例
xiān​lì HSK7

precedent

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
先例 xiān​lì
precedent noun
the earliest or a previously existing instance of something

我想不出一个历史先例。

wǒ xiǎng bu chū yī​ge lì​shǐ xiān​lì.

I can’t think of a historical precedent.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
2.86 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
3.75 per million

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 7

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)