首先
shǒu​xiān HSK3

first

首先 shǒu​xiān
first adverb
The earliest in time or order; first of all; before all others

首先要做的就是沟通。

shǒu​xiān yào zuò de jiù​shì gōu​tōng.

The first thing to do is communicate.

她首先是一位母亲。

tā shǒu​xiān shì yī wèi mǔ​qīn.

She's a mother first.

firstly adverbconjunction
In the first place, used to introduce the first point in a list or sequence of reasons and often followed by 其次 qí​cì

首先，你必须要钱。

shǒu​xiān, nǐ bì​xū yào qián.

You must first have money.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
108.0 per million appears in 38% of films
Written text
143.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3

Cross-References

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)