Gentleman in Chinese
gentleman · HSK 1
先生
- 先 first
- 生 to give birth to
Counted with 位: 一位先生
王先生，请这边坐。 Mr. Wang, please sit over here.
Other ways to say gentleman
More words with 先 or 生
How do you say gentleman in Chinese?
Gentleman in Chinese is 先生 (xiān sheng). You can also say 男士 (nán shì).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.