先勿先

Chinese

		early; prior; former early; prior; former; in advance; first	do not	early; prior; former early; prior; former; in advance; first
simp. and trad. (先勿先)		先	勿	先

Pronunciation

Wu (Wugniu)
- (Shanghainese): ¹shi-veq-shi

Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wugniu: ¹shi-veq-shi
  - Wiktionary Romanisation: ¹xi-veq-xi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵ vəʔ³³ ɕi²¹/

Adverb

先勿先

(Northern Wu) first off; before anything else
倷說大家儕同意，先勿先我就勿同意。 [Suzhounese, trad.]
倷说大家侪同意，先勿先我就勿同意。 [Suzhounese, simp.]
You say that everyone's on board with it, but I for one am not.

該頓飯，單單酒水，先勿先要五六百塊。 [Ningbonese, trad.]
该顿饭，单单酒水，先勿先要五六百块。 [Ningbonese, simp.]
With this meal, even if you just count the dishes for the feast, just that is going to cost a good five or six hundreds up front.
(dialectal Northern Wu, including Shanghainese) unexpectedly; of all things

Synonyms

(unexpectedly):

出乎意料地 (chūhūyìliào de)
居然 (jūrán)
煞 (Min Nan)
硬敢 (Liuzhou)
竟 (jìng)
竟然 (jìngrán)

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