"先古" meaning in Chinese

See 先古 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ Chinese transliterations: xiāngǔ [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄒㄧㄢ ㄍㄨˇ [Mandarin, bopomofo], xiāngǔ [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], siangǔ [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], hsien¹-ku³ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], syān-gǔ [Mandarin, Yale], shianguu [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], сяньгу [Mandarin, Palladius], sjanʹgu [Mandarin, Palladius]
Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} 先古
  1. (literary) ancestors; forebears; forefathers; progenitor Tags: literary
    Sense id: en-先古-zh-noun-hDBp6ciu Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 19 43 38 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 19 44 38 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 42 37
  2. (literary) the distant past; ancient times; antiquity; early historical times Tags: literary
    Sense id: en-先古-zh-noun-tC-8UxWQ Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 19 43 38 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 19 44 38 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 42 37
  3. (literary) the way of the ancient sages Tags: literary
    Sense id: en-先古-zh-noun-DS3EQoVu Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 19 43 38 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 19 44 38 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 42 37
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: 上輩 (shàngbèi), 上辈 (shàngbèi), 上輩子 (shàngbèizi), 上辈子 (shàngbèizi), 先人 (xiānrén), 先代 (xiāndài) [literary], 先君 (xiānjūn) [literary], 先祖 (xiānzǔ) [literary], 先輩 (xiānbèi), 先辈 (xiānbèi), 公婆 [Hokkien], 公媽 [Min-Nan], 公妈 [Min-Nan], 早勻 [Hokkien, Xiamen], 早匀 [Hokkien, Xiamen], 父祖 (fùzǔ) [literary], 皇考 (huángkǎo) [archaic], 祖上 (zǔshàng), 祖先 (zǔxiān), 祖宗 (zǔzōng), 老祖宗, 老輩 (lǎobèi), 老辈 (lǎobèi), 上古 (shànggǔ), 元古 (yuángǔ), 古代 (gǔdài), 古早 (gǔzǎo) [Min], 古時 (gǔshí), 古时 (gǔshí), 古清朝代 [Puxian-Min], 太古 (tàigǔ) [attributive, often], 曠古 (kuànggǔ), 旷古 (kuànggǔ), 絕代 (juédài) [literary], 绝代 (juédài) [literary], 遠古 (yuǎngǔ), 远古 (yuǎngǔ), 邃古 (suìgǔ)
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  "msg": "parse_linkage_recurse unhandled NodeKind.URL: <URL(['https://wiki.local/w/index.php?action=edit&title=Thesaurus%3A%E9%81%A0%E5%8F%A4'], ['edit']){} >",
  "path": [
    "先古"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "先古",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.