What does it mean in Chinese?

What does 先生 mean?

先生 xiānsheng

Mr.; sir; gentleman

It can also mean

  • doctor (traditional Chinese medicine)
  • husband
  • teacher

Its characters

  1. 先 xiān first
  2. 生 shēng to give birth to

In a sentence

王先生,请这边坐。 Mr. Wang, please sit over here.

谢先生的妈妈明天七十岁了。

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