先至

Chinese

		early; prior; former early; prior; former; in advance; first	arrive; most; to arrive; most; to; until
simp. and trad. (先至)		先	至

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sin¹ zi³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sin¹ zi³
    • Yale: sīn ji
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sin¹ dzi³
    • Guangdong Romanization: xin¹ ji³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn⁵⁵ t͡siː³³/

Adverb

先至

1. (Cantonese) only then

   噉樣做先至係啱嘅。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   噉样做先至系啱嘅。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   gam² joeng^6-2 zou⁶ sin¹ zi³ hai⁶ ngaam¹ ge³. [Jyutping]

   You have to do it this way for it to be right.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 才 (“only after; only then; not ... until”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		才2, 再, 方, 始, 方才
Mandarin	Taiwan	才2
	Singapore	才2
Cantonese	Guangzhou	先, 至, 先至
	Hong Kong	先, 至, 先至
Hakka	Meixian	正
Southern Min	Xiamen	才3
	Quanzhou	才3
	Zhangzhou	才3
	Singapore (Hokkien)	才3
	Manila (Hokkien)	才3
	Shantou	正
	Singapore (Teochew)	正
Wu	Shanghai	再, 才2
	Suzhou	再
Xiang	Changsha	才至