"先人" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Chinese]

IPA: /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /siːn⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA], /ɕie¹¹ ʐəŋ¹¹/ [Jin, Taiyuan, Sinological-IPA, dated], /siɛn³³ lin²⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei, Sinological-IPA], /siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ lin²⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei, Sinological-IPA], /siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² lin²⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei, Sinological-IPA], /siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² d͡zin¹³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Sinological-IPA], /siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ zin²³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung, Sinological-IPA], /sõĩ³³⁻²³ d͡ziŋ⁵⁵/ [Min-Nan, Teochew, Sinological-IPA]
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 先人
  1. ancestors; forebears; forefathers
    Sense id: en-先人-zh-noun-O945C240
  2. (respectful) one's deceased father; my late father; my dearly departed father Synonyms (one's deceased father): 亡父 (wángfù) [literary], 先父 (xiānfù) [literary], 先考 (xiānkǎo) [literary]
    Sense id: en-先人-zh-noun-UsAqmtfZ Disambiguation of "one's deceased father": 0 99 1
  3. the ancients; people from ancient times; forefathers
    Sense id: en-先人-zh-noun-tVjjv7Vt Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Male, People Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 31 4 65 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 32 5 63 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 3 66 Disambiguation of Male: 27 26 46 Disambiguation of People: 0 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 先人板板
Categories (other): Death, Family Disambiguation of Death: 0 0 0 Disambiguation of Family: 0 0 0 Synonyms: 上輩 (shàngbèi), 上辈 (shàngbèi), 上輩子 (shàngbèizi), 上辈子 (shàngbèizi), 先代 (xiāndài) [literary], 先古 (xiāngǔ) [literary], 先君 (xiānjūn) [literary], 先祖 (xiānzǔ) [literary], 先輩 (xiānbèi), 先辈 (xiānbèi), 公婆 [Hokkien], 公媽 [Min-Nan, Puxian-Min], 公妈 [Min-Nan, Puxian-Min], 父祖 (fùzǔ) [literary], 皇考 (huángkǎo) [archaic], 祖上 (zǔshàng), 祖先 (zǔxiān), 祖公 [Hokkien, Puxian-Min], 祖公媽 [Puxian-Min], 祖公妈 [Puxian-Min], 祖宗 (zǔzōng), 老祖宗, 老輩 (lǎobèi), 老辈 (lǎobèi), 先民 (xiānmín) [literary], 前人 (qiánrén), 古人 (gǔrén), 古代人 (gǔdàirén), 古者 (gǔzhě) [literary]

Noun [Japanese]

IPA: [sẽ̞ɲ̟d͡ʑĩɴ] Forms: 先人 ^ [canonical] (ruby: (せん), (じん)), senjin [romanization], senzin [romanization], せんじん [hiragana, historical]
Head templates: {{ja-noun|せんじん|hhira=せんじん}} 先(せん)人(じん) • (senjin) ^(←せんじん (senzin)?)
  1. ancestors; forebears; forefathers
{
  "categories": [
    {
      "_dis": "0 0 0",
      "kind": "other",
      "langcode": "zh",
      "name": "Death",
      "orig": "zh:Death",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w+disamb"
    },
    {
      "_dis": "0 0 0",
      "kind": "other",
      "langcode": "zh",
      "name": "Family",
      "orig": "zh:Family",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w+disamb"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "先人板板"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "先人",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "ancestors; forebears; forefathers"
      ],
      "id": "en-先人-zh-noun-O945C240",
      "links": [
        [
          "ancestor",
          "ancestor"
        ],
        [
          "forebear",
          "forebear"
        ],
        [
          "forefather",
          "forefather"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              20,
              27
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              5,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              54,
              65
            ]
          ],
          "english": "In the year of Mingdao, I returned to my home with my late father and saw him in my uncle’s home. He was twelve or thirteen years old by then.",
          "ref": " 960–1127, Wang Anshi, 《傷仲永》",
          "roman": "Míngdào zhōng, cóng xiānrén huánjiā, yú jiù jiā jiàn zhī, shí'èr sān yǐ.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "明道中,從先人還家,於舅家見之,十二三矣。",
          "translation": "In the year of Mingdao, I returned to my home with my late father and saw him in my uncle’s home. He was twelve or thirteen years old by then.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              20,
              27
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              5,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              54,
              65
            ]
          ],
          "english": "In the year of Mingdao, I returned to my home with my late father and saw him in my uncle’s home. He was twelve or thirteen years old by then.",
          "ref": " 960–1127, Wang Anshi, 《傷仲永》",
          "roman": "Míngdào zhōng, cóng xiānrén huánjiā, yú jiù jiā jiàn zhī, shí'èr sān yǐ.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "明道中,从先人还家,于舅家见之,十二三矣。",
          "translation": "In the year of Mingdao, I returned to my home with my late father and saw him in my uncle’s home. He was twelve or thirteen years old by then.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "one's deceased father; my late father; my dearly departed father"
      ],
      "id": "en-先人-zh-noun-UsAqmtfZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "deceased",
          "deceased"
        ],
        [
          "father",
          "father"
        ],
        [
          "late",
          "late"
        ],
        [
          "dearly",
          "dearly"
        ],
        [
          "departed",
          "departed"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "respectful",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(respectful) one's deceased father; my late father; my dearly departed father"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 99 1",
          "roman": "wángfù",
          "sense": "one's deceased father",
          "tags": [
            "literary"
          ],
          "word": "亡父"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 99 1",
          "roman": "xiānfù",
          "sense": "one's deceased father",
          "tags": [
            "literary"
          ],
          "word": "先父"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 99 1",
          "roman": "xiānkǎo",
          "sense": "one's deceased father",
          "tags": [
            "literary"
          ],
          "word": "先考"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 4 65",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 5 63",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 3 66",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "27 26 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "zh",
          "name": "Male",
          "orig": "zh:Male",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 0 100",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "zh",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "zh:People",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the ancients; people from ancient times; forefathers"
      ],
      "id": "en-先人-zh-noun-tVjjv7Vt",
      "links": [
        [
          "ancient",
          "ancient"
        ],
        [
          "people",
          "people"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ],
        [
          "forefather",
          "forefather"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "xiānrén"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄒㄧㄢ ㄖㄣˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin¹ jan⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Jin",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "xie¹ reng¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sian-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sian-jîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "Peng'im"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "soin¹ ring⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "xiānrén"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄒㄧㄢ ㄖㄣˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sianrén"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hsien¹-jên²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "syān-rén"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shianren"
    },
    {
      "roman": "sjanʹžɛnʹ",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "сяньжэнь"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "仙人",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Homophones"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "先人",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Homophones"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin¹ jan⁴"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sīn yàhn"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin¹ jan⁴"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "xin¹ yen⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siːn⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "仙人",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Homophones",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "先人",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Homophones",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Jin",
        "Taiyuan",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "xie¹ reng¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕie¹¹ ʐəŋ¹¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Jin",
        "Taiyuan",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "dated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Quanzhou",
        "Taipei",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sian-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Quanzhou",
        "Taipei",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sian-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Quanzhou",
        "Taipei",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sienliin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɛn³³ lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Quanzhou",
        "Taipei",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Quanzhou",
        "Taipei",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Quanzhou",
        "Taipei",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Kaohsiung",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sian-jîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Kaohsiung",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sian-jîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Kaohsiung",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sienjiin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² d͡zin¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Kaohsiung",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ zin²³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Kaohsiung",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "Peng'im"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "soin¹ ring⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "soiⁿ jîng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sõĩ³³⁻²³ d͡ziŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "shàngbèi",
      "word": "上輩"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "shàngbèi",
      "word": "上辈"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "shàngbèizi",
      "word": "上輩子"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "shàngbèizi",
      "word": "上辈子"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "xiāndài",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "先代"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "xiāngǔ",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "先古"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "xiānjūn",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "先君"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "xiānzǔ",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "先祖"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "xiānbèi",
      "word": "先輩"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "xiānbèi",
      "word": "先辈"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "公婆"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Puxian-Min"
      ],
      "word": "公媽"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Puxian-Min"
      ],
      "word": "公妈"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "fùzǔ",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "父祖"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "huángkǎo",
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "皇考"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "zǔshàng",
      "word": "祖上"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "zǔxiān",
      "word": "祖先"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Puxian-Min"
      ],
      "word": "祖公"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Puxian-Min"
      ],
      "word": "祖公媽"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Puxian-Min"
      ],
      "word": "祖公妈"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "zǔzōng",
      "word": "祖宗"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "老祖宗"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "lǎobèi",
      "word": "老輩"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "lǎobèi",
      "word": "老辈"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "xiānmín",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "先民"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "qiánrén",
      "word": "前人"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "gǔrén",
      "word": "古人"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "gǔdàirén",
      "word": "古代人"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "gǔzhě",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "古者"
    }
  ],
  "word": "先人"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "先人 ^",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "先",
          "せん"
        ],
        [
          "人",
          "じん"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senjin",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senzin",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "せんじん",
      "roman": "senzin",
      "tags": [
        "hiragana",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "せんじん",
        "hhira": "せんじん"
      },
      "expansion": "先(せん)人(じん) • (senjin) ^(←せんじん (senzin)?)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms read with on'yomi",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              6
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              2
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              21
            ]
          ],
          "english": "words of the ancients",
          "roman": "senjin no kotoba",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "先人",
              "せんじん"
            ],
            [
              "言葉",
              "ことば"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "先人の言葉",
          "translation": "words of the ancients",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ancestors; forebears; forefathers"
      ],
      "id": "en-先人-ja-noun-O945C240",
      "links": [
        [
          "ancestor",
          "ancestor"
        ],
        [
          "forebear",
          "forebear"
        ],
        [
          "forefather",
          "forefather"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "せんじん"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[sẽ̞ɲ̟d͡ʑĩɴ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "先人"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese nouns",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 人",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 先",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "zh:Death",
    "zh:Family",
    "zh:Male",
    "zh:People"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "先人板板"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "先人",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "ancestors; forebears; forefathers"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ancestor",
          "ancestor"
        ],
        [
          "forebear",
          "forebear"
        ],
        [
          "forefather",
          "forefather"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Literary Chinese terms with quotations"
      ],
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            [
              20,
              27
            ]
          ],
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            [
              5,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              54,
              65
            ]
          ],
          "english": "In the year of Mingdao, I returned to my home with my late father and saw him in my uncle’s home. He was twelve or thirteen years old by then.",
          "ref": " 960–1127, Wang Anshi, 《傷仲永》",
          "roman": "Míngdào zhōng, cóng xiānrén huánjiā, yú jiù jiā jiàn zhī, shí'èr sān yǐ.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "明道中,從先人還家,於舅家見之,十二三矣。",
          "translation": "In the year of Mingdao, I returned to my home with my late father and saw him in my uncle’s home. He was twelve or thirteen years old by then.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              20,
              27
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              5,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              54,
              65
            ]
          ],
          "english": "In the year of Mingdao, I returned to my home with my late father and saw him in my uncle’s home. He was twelve or thirteen years old by then.",
          "ref": " 960–1127, Wang Anshi, 《傷仲永》",
          "roman": "Míngdào zhōng, cóng xiānrén huánjiā, yú jiù jiā jiàn zhī, shí'èr sān yǐ.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "明道中,从先人还家,于舅家见之,十二三矣。",
          "translation": "In the year of Mingdao, I returned to my home with my late father and saw him in my uncle’s home. He was twelve or thirteen years old by then.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "one's deceased father; my late father; my dearly departed father"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "deceased",
          "deceased"
        ],
        [
          "father",
          "father"
        ],
        [
          "late",
          "late"
        ],
        [
          "dearly",
          "dearly"
        ],
        [
          "departed",
          "departed"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "respectful",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(respectful) one's deceased father; my late father; my dearly departed father"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "the ancients; people from ancient times; forefathers"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ancient",
          "ancient"
        ],
        [
          "people",
          "people"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ],
        [
          "forefather",
          "forefather"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "xiānrén"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄒㄧㄢ ㄖㄣˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin¹ jan⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Jin",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "xie¹ reng¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sian-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sian-jîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "Peng'im"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "soin¹ ring⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "xiānrén"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄒㄧㄢ ㄖㄣˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sianrén"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hsien¹-jên²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "syān-rén"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shianren"
    },
    {
      "roman": "sjanʹžɛnʹ",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "сяньжэнь"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "仙人",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Homophones"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "先人",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Homophones"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin¹ jan⁴"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sīn yàhn"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin¹ jan⁴"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "xin¹ yen⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siːn⁵⁵ jɐn²¹/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "仙人",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Homophones",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "先人",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Homophones",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Jin",
        "Taiyuan",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "xie¹ reng¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɕie¹¹ ʐəŋ¹¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Jin",
        "Taiyuan",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "dated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Quanzhou",
        "Taipei",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sian-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Quanzhou",
        "Taipei",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sian-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Quanzhou",
        "Taipei",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sienliin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɛn³³ lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Quanzhou",
        "Taipei",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Quanzhou",
        "Taipei",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Quanzhou",
        "Taipei",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Kaohsiung",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sian-jîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Kaohsiung",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sian-jîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Kaohsiung",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sienjiin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² d͡zin¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Kaohsiung",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ zin²³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Kaohsiung",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "Peng'im"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "soin¹ ring⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "soiⁿ jîng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sõĩ³³⁻²³ d͡ziŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "shàngbèi",
      "word": "上輩"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shàngbèi",
      "word": "上辈"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shàngbèizi",
      "word": "上輩子"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shàngbèizi",
      "word": "上辈子"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiāndài",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "先代"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiāngǔ",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "先古"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiānjūn",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "先君"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiānzǔ",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "先祖"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiānbèi",
      "word": "先輩"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiānbèi",
      "word": "先辈"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "公婆"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Puxian-Min"
      ],
      "word": "公媽"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Puxian-Min"
      ],
      "word": "公妈"
    },
    {
      "roman": "fùzǔ",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "父祖"
    },
    {
      "roman": "huángkǎo",
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "皇考"
    },
    {
      "roman": "zǔshàng",
      "word": "祖上"
    },
    {
      "roman": "zǔxiān",
      "word": "祖先"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Puxian-Min"
      ],
      "word": "祖公"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Puxian-Min"
      ],
      "word": "祖公媽"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Puxian-Min"
      ],
      "word": "祖公妈"
    },
    {
      "roman": "zǔzōng",
      "word": "祖宗"
    },
    {
      "word": "老祖宗"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lǎobèi",
      "word": "老輩"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lǎobèi",
      "word": "老辈"
    },
    {
      "roman": "wángfù",
      "sense": "one's deceased father",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "亡父"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiānfù",
      "sense": "one's deceased father",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "先父"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiānkǎo",
      "sense": "one's deceased father",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "先考"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiānmín",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "先民"
    },
    {
      "roman": "qiánrén",
      "word": "前人"
    },
    {
      "roman": "gǔrén",
      "word": "古人"
    },
    {
      "roman": "gǔdàirén",
      "word": "古代人"
    },
    {
      "roman": "gǔzhě",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "古者"
    }
  ],
  "word": "先人"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "先人 ^",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "先",
          "せん"
        ],
        [
          "人",
          "じん"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senjin",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "senzin",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "せんじん",
      "roman": "senzin",
      "tags": [
        "hiragana",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "せんじん",
        "hhira": "せんじん"
      },
      "expansion": "先(せん)人(じん) • (senjin) ^(←せんじん (senzin)?)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Japanese lemmas",
        "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
        "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Japanese nouns",
        "Japanese terms read with on'yomi",
        "Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji",
        "Japanese terms spelled with 人 read as じん",
        "Japanese terms spelled with 先 read as せん",
        "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
        "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
        "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent",
        "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
        "Japanese terms with usage examples",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              6
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              2
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              21
            ]
          ],
          "english": "words of the ancients",
          "roman": "senjin no kotoba",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "先人",
              "せんじん"
            ],
            [
              "言葉",
              "ことば"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "先人の言葉",
          "translation": "words of the ancients",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ancestors; forebears; forefathers"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ancestor",
          "ancestor"
        ],
        [
          "forebear",
          "forebear"
        ],
        [
          "forefather",
          "forefather"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "せんじん"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[sẽ̞ɲ̟d͡ʑĩɴ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "先人"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.