首先 shǒuxiān
          
              shǒuxiān 
              
                
              
              adverb 
              first 
              Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
              
                , Subdomain: Time 
              
              
              
              
                Notes: 首先 is an adverb expressing order (CC-CEDICT '首先')
              
               
          
          
Contained in
- 不首先使用 no first use (policy for nuclear weapons); NFU
 
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第一百十八回 Chapter 118 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
 - 第一百十五回 Chapter 115 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 5
 - 第一百十七回 Chapter 117 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
 - 卷三百十四 列傳第二百〇二 雲南土司二 Volume 314 Biographies 202: Yunnan Tribal Headmen 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 2
 - 第一百十三回 Chapter 113 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
 - 《齊悼惠王世家》 House of Prince Daohui of Qi Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 2
 - 卷九十二 志第六十八 兵四 Volume 92 Treatises 68: Military 4 History of Ming 明史 — count: 1
 - 第八十回 Chapter 80 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
 - 第五十六回 Chapter 56 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 1
 - 卷二十七上 志第十七上 曆三上 Volume 27a Treatises 18: Calendar 3a New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 1