Japanese word
先輩
せんぱい
In your course · Chapter 9
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- A1
- Frequency
- No. 750 in the course corpus
Meanings
- senior (at school or work)
- senior (at school, work, etc.)
- superior
- elder
- older person
- predecessor
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 先
- On reading:
- セン
- Kun reading:
- さき、ま.ず
- Meanings:
- before, ahead, previous, future, precedence
- 輩
- On reading:
- ハイ
- Kun reading:
- -ばら、ともがら、やかい、やから
- Meanings:
- comrade, fellow, people, companions
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))