先後

See also: 先后

Chinese

		early; prior; former early; prior; former; in advance; first	back; behind; rear back; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later
trad. (先後)		先	後
simp. (先后)		先	后

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiānhòu

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢㄏㄡˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sin¹ hau⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): siên-heu
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): sian-hō͘ / sian-hiǒ / sian-hiō / seng-āu / suiⁿ-ǎu

(Teochew, Peng'im): soin¹ ao⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiānhòu
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢㄏㄡˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sianhòu
  - Wade–Giles: hsien¹-hou⁴
  - Yale: syān-hòu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shianhow
  - Palladius: сяньхоу (sjanʹxou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ xoʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sin¹ hau⁶
  - Yale: sīn hauh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sin¹ hau⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: xin¹ heo⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn⁵⁵ hɐu̯²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: siên-heu
  - Hakka Romanization System: xien^ˊ heu
  - Hagfa Pinyim: xian¹ heu⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /si̯en²⁴⁻¹¹ heu̯⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sian-hō͘
  - Tâi-lô: sian-hōo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sienho
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² hɔ²²/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ hɔ³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sian-hiǒ
  - Tâi-lô: sian-hiǒ
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siɛn³³ hio²²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sian-hiō
  - Tâi-lô: sian-hiō
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sienhioi
  - IPA (Taipei): /siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ hio³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ hiɤ³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: seng-āu
  - Tâi-lô: sing-āu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: seng'au
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /siɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² au²²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: suiⁿ-ǎu
  - Tâi-lô: suinn-ǎu
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /suĩ³³ au²²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: soin¹ ao⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: soiⁿ ău
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sõĩ³³⁻²³ au³⁵/

Noun

先後

order; priority

Derived terms

先後倒置 / 先后倒置

Adverb

先後

continuously; one after another; bit by bit; in turn; successively; in succession

Synonyms

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一連 / 一连 (yīlián)
不斷 / 不断 (bùduàn)
前後 / 前后 (qiánhòu)
勿斷 / 勿断 (⁸veq-doe) (Wu)
接連 / 接连 (jiēlián)
接連不斷 / 接连不断 (jiēliánbùduàn)
沓沓 (Hokkien)
直透 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
相繼 / 相继 (xiāngjì)
紛紛 / 纷纷 (fēnfēn)
絡繹 / 络绎 (luòyì) (literary)
連 / 连
連紲 / 连绁 (Hokkien)
連續 / 连续 (liánxù)
連連 / 连连 (liánlián)
陸續 / 陆续 (lùxù)
陸陸續續 / 陆陆续续 (lùlùxùxù)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): xiānhòu, xiànhòu

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢㄏㄡˋ, ㄒㄧㄢˋ ㄏㄡˋ

(Xi'an, Guanzhong Pinyin): xiānhou

(Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): щянху (xi͡anhu, III-I)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiānhòu
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢㄏㄡˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sianhòu
  - Wade–Giles: hsien¹-hou⁴
  - Yale: syān-hòu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shianhow
  - Palladius: сяньхоу (sjanʹxou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ xoʊ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiànhòu
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˋ ㄏㄡˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siànhòu
  - Wade–Giles: hsien⁴-hou⁴
  - Yale: syàn-hòu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiannhow
  - Palladius: сяньхоу (sjanʹxou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ xoʊ̯⁵¹/
- (Xi'an)
  - Guanzhong Pinyin: xiānhou
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiã⁵⁵ xɤu/
- (Dungan)
  - Cyrillic and Wiktionary: щянху (xi͡anhu, III-I)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiæ̃⁴⁴ xou²⁴/
  (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

Noun

先後

(literary or Central Plains Mandarin) wives of brothers; sisters-in-law

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 妯娌 (“wives of brothers; sisters-in-law”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		妯娌
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	妯娌
	Taiwan	妯娌
	Harbin	妯娌
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	妯娌, 妯娌們, 妯娌倆
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	妯娌兒倆
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	妯娌倆
	Xi'an	先後
	Yanchi	妯娌
	Guyuan	先後
	Longde	先後
	Jingyuan	先後
	Xuzhou	妯娌行頭
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	先後
	Masanchin (Shaanxi Dungan)	先後
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	妯娌, 妯娌倆
	Wuzhong	妯娌
	Zhongwei	妯娌
	Ürümqi	妯娌幾個, 妯娌倆兒, 妯娌兩個, 兩妯娌
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	前後家, 前後
	Wuhan	妯娌, 妯娌夥裡
	Guiyang	妯娌, 妯娌些, 妯娌兩個, 兩妯娌
	Liuzhou	兩嬸母
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	妯娌兩個, 妯娌幾個, 妯娌們
	Yangzhou	妯娌, 妯娌兩個, 妯娌們
	Hefei	妯娌
Cantonese	Guangzhou	嬸母, 妯娌, 兩嬸母, 兩妯娌
	Hong Kong (San Tin; Weitou)	妯娌
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	子嫂
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	妯娌
	Taishan	妯娌
	Kaiping (Chikan)	妯娌
	Dongguan	兩妯娌
	Yangjiang	嬸母
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	嬸母
Gan	Nanchang	姆嬸
Hakka	Meixian	子嫂
	Xingning	子嫂
	Huidong (Daling)	子嫂
	Shaoguan (Qujiang)	子嫂
	Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang)	子嫂
	Changting	子嫂
	Wuping	子嫂
	Wuping (Pingyu)	子嫂
	Liancheng	子嫂
	Ninghua	子嫂
	Ruijin	子嫂
	Shicheng	子嫂
	Shangyou (Shexi)	子嫂
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	子嫂, 兩子嫂
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	子嫂, 兩子嫂
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	子嫂, 姊嫂, 兩子嫂
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	子嫂, 兩子嫂
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	姊嫂, 兩姊嫂
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	姊嫂, 兩姊嫂
	Hong Kong	子嫂
	Senai (Huiyang)	子嫂
Jin	Taiyuan	妯娌, 妯娌們, 妯娌倆, 妯娌倆個
Jin	Xinzhou	妯娌兩個, 妯娌們
Northern Min	Jian'ou	叔伯母
	Songxi	叔伯母
	Zhenghe	叔伯母
	Jianyang	叔伯母
	Wuyishan	叔伯母
	Pucheng (Shibei)	叔伯母
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	姆嬸, 姆嬸兩隻
Southern Min	Xiamen	同姒
	Quanzhou	同姒
	Jinjiang	同姒
	Yongchun	同姒, 同姒囝
	Zhangzhou	同姒
	Zhangzhou (Changtai)	同姒仔
	Zhangpu	同姒仔
	Zhao'an	同姒仔
	Taipei	同姒仔
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	同姒仔
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	同姒仔
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	同姒仔
	Kaohsiung	同姒
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	同姒仔
	Kaohsiung (Hongmaogang, Siaogang)	同姒仔
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	同姒仔
	Kaohsiung (Tianliao)	同姒仔
	Yilan	同姒仔, 妯娌
	Yilan (Luodong)	同姒仔
	Yilan (Toucheng)	同姒仔
	Changhua (Lukang)	同姒仔, 妯娌
	Changhua (Yongjing)	同姒仔
	Taichung	同姒仔
	Tainan	同姒仔
	Tainan (Anping)	同姒仔
	Hsinchu	同姒仔
	Pingtung (Baoli, Checheng)	同姒仔
	Kinmen	同姒
	Penghu (Magong)	同姒仔
	Penghu (Xiyu)	同姒仔
	Singapore (Hokkien)	同姒
	Manila (Hokkien)	同姒
	Longyan	同姒
	Zhangping (Yongfu)	姊嫂
	Datian	同姒仔
	Chaozhou	大小姆
	Raoping	大小姆
	Shantou	大小姆
	Shantou (Chenghai)	大小姆
	Jieyang	大小姆, 同姒
	Haifeng	同姒
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	大小姆
	Pontianak (Teochew)	嬸姆
	Leizhou	兩嬸嫂
	Haikou	嬸嫂兩儂
Puxian Min	Putian	伯姒嬸
	Putian (Donghai, Chengxiang)	同姒囝
	Xianyou	同姒囝
Central Min	Yong'an	姊嫂
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Sanxiang)	兩妯娌, 兩叔伯母
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	兩嬸母
Wu	Shanghai	妯娌
	Shanghai (Chongming)	妯論兩
	Suzhou	伯姆, 伯姆淘裡
	Danyang	妯娌, 妯娌兩個, 妯娌己
	Ningbo	叔伯姆, 妯娌
	Wenzhou	叔伯母, 叔伯母娘
Xiang	Changsha	叔伯母
	Loudi	叔伯母
	Shuangfeng	叔伯母