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What does 原先 mean?

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原先 yuánxiān

original; former; originally; formerly

Its characters

  1. 原 yuán original
  2. 先 xiān first

In a sentence

我原先住在北京,后来搬走了。 I originally lived in Beijing, but later moved away.

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