先生 xiānsheng

1. xiānsheng noun Mr.; sir; mister
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (ABC 'xiānsheng' 先生 n 2, p. 1035; CC-CEDICT '先生'; Guoyu '先生' 1; Sun 2006, loc. 1440)
2. xiānsheng phrase first born
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: An honorific used in Literary Chinese as early as the Warring States (Pulleyblank 1995, p. 78).
3. xiānsheng noun husband
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 丈夫 (ABC 'xiānsheng' 先生 n 3, p. 1035; CC-CEDICT '先生'; Guoyu '先生' 2)
4. xiānsheng noun teacher
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 老师 (ABC 'xiānsheng' 先生 n 1, p. 1035; CC-CEDICT '先生'; Guoyu '先生' 3)
5. xiānsheng noun gentleman
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '先生' 4)
6. xiānsheng noun doctor
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Dialect (ABC 'xiānsheng' 先生 n 5, p. 1035; CC-CEDICT '先生'; Guoyu '先生')
7. xiānsheng noun bookkeeper
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'xiānsheng' 先生 n 6, p. 1035)
8. xiānsheng noun fortune teller
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'xiānsheng' 先生 n 7, p. 1035; Guoyu '先生')
9. xiānsheng noun prostitute
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'xiānsheng' 先生 n 4, p. 1035; Guoyu '先生' 7)
10. xiānsheng noun a Taoist scholar
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '先生' 6)

Contained in

• 1. 佛光人要先入世后出世 2. 佛光人要先度生后度死 3. 佛光人要先生活后生死 4. 佛光人要先缩小后扩大(1. 佛光人要先入世後出世 2. 佛光人要先度生後度死 3. 佛光人要先生活後生死 4. 佛光人要先縮小後擴大) 1. Fo Guang Members should serve the world before renouncing it. 2. Fo Guang members should save the living before liberating the dead. 3. Fo Guang members should try to learn to live a good life before dying a good death. 4. Fo Guang members should progress gradually in their practice.

Also contained in

五柳先生传 、 算命先生 、 赛先生 、 先生施教 、 风水先生 、 德先生 、 好好先生 、 账房先生 、 缠夹二先生

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• Scroll 3 Nan Yue Zong Sheng Ji 南嶽總勝集 — count: 53
• Scroll 3 Bian Wei Lu 辯偽錄 — count: 29
• Scroll 4 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 25 , has English translation
• Scroll 2 Nan Yue Zong Sheng Ji 南嶽總勝集 — count: 24
• Scroll 2 Bian Wei Lu 辯偽錄 — count: 23
• Scroll 1 Nan Yue Zong Sheng Ji 南嶽總勝集 — count: 22
• Scroll 2 Zhen Zheng Lun 甄正論 — count: 19
• Scroll 1 Records of Taitai Shan (Tiantai Shan Ji) 天台山記 — count: 16
• Scroll 1 Zhen Zheng Lun 甄正論 — count: 15
• Scroll 3 Shi Jian Ji Gu Lue Xu Ji 釋鑑稽古略續集 — count: 15

Collocations

• 先生后 (先生後) 何故先生後滅不一時耶 — Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra (Mahaparinirvana Sutra) 大般涅槃經, Scroll 28 — count: 12
• 心先生 (心先生) 謂彼心先生已 — Abhidharmamahāvibhāṣaśāstra (Apidamo Dapiposha Lun) 阿毘達磨大毘婆沙論, Scroll 195 — count: 5
• 生先生 (生先生) 生先生解脫分能善根已 — Abhidharmakośaśāstra (Apidamo Ju She Shi Lun) 阿毘達磨俱舍釋論, Scroll 17 — count: 5
• 中先生 (中先生) 第三定已於中先生適心 — Abhidharmakośaśāstra (Apidamo Ju She Shi Lun) 阿毘達磨俱舍釋論, Scroll 21 — count: 4
• 先生诸天 (先生諸天) 先生諸天語後生天言 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 21 — count: 4
• 要先生 (要先生) 要先生已 — Abhidharmanyāyānusāraśāstra (Apidamo Shun Zheng Lilun) 阿毘達磨順正理論, Scroll 34 — count: 3
• 先生大 (先生大) 先生大瞋 — Mūlasarvāstivādavinayakṣudrakavastu (Genben Shuo Yiqie You Bu Pi Nai Ye Za Shi) 根本說一切有部毘奈耶雜事, Scroll 29 — count: 3
• 先生天子 (先生天子) 有餘先生天子 — Sutra on the Great Reliable Brahman (Da Jiangu Poluomen Jing) 大堅固婆羅門緣起經, Scroll 1 — count: 3
• 先生三 (先生三) 先生三種慈悲心故 — Bodhisattvagocaropāyaviṣayavikurvāṇanirdeśa (Dasazhenigan Zi Suo Shuo Jing) 大薩遮尼乾子所說經, Scroll 5 — count: 3
• 先生起 (先生起) 論主先生起疑意 — Jingang Xian Lun 金剛仙論, Scroll 7 — count: 3