Get to know Hsien better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Hsien in a sentence
Hsien meaning
An administrative subdivision of Taiwan, commonly translated as county. (Alternative form of xian for mainland China.)
Using Hsien
- The main meaning on this page is: An administrative subdivision of Taiwan, commonly translated as county. (Alternative form of xian for mainland China.)
- In the example corpus, hsien often appears in combinations such as: lee hsien, hsien loong, hsien yang.
Context around Hsien
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hsien
- In this selection, "hsien" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lee, jen, hsiao, loong, yang and hui stand out and add context to how "hsien" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include minister lee hsien loong and minister lee hsien loong s. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hsien" sits close to words such as aberrant, abloh and absurdities, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hsien
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Lee Hsien Yang is Li’s father. (7 words)
Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong meets Indonesian President Joko Widodo. (12 words)
In a Facebook post, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong congratulated Loh on his hard-fought win. (16 words)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at his office in Singapore Sunday evening in his first diplomatic outing of his visit to the country ahead of Tuesday’s landmark summit with U.S. President Donald Trump. (43 words)
The tribunal found that Mdm Kwa had failed to safeguard Mr Lee Kuan Yew's confidentiality while handling his will, and that she had misled his children, Mr Lee Hsien Yang and Dr Lee Wei Ling, in email responses to their queries. (42 words)
As we progressively add more users and use cases, the UPI-PayNow linkage will grow in utility and contribute more to facilitating our trade and people-to-people links, Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore, was quoted as saying. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
As we progressively add more users and use cases, the UPI-PayNow linkage will grow in utility and contribute more to facilitating our trade and people-to-people links, Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore, was quoted as saying.
Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong meets Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
The tribunal found that Mdm Kwa had failed to safeguard Mr Lee Kuan Yew's confidentiality while handling his will, and that she had misled his children, Mr Lee Hsien Yang and Dr Lee Wei Ling, in email responses to their queries.
In a Facebook post, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong congratulated Loh on his hard-fought win.
In fact Mr Wong, who is also Finance Minister and is slated to take over Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s role by November, termed this year's Budget the "first instalment" of the Forward Singapore (Forward SG) programmes.
The public service plays a major role in “keeping Singapore exceptional”, says Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Death row inmate Weng Jen-hsien, found guilty last year of setting a fire that killed his parents and four relatives in 2016, was executed by a firing squad on Wednesday, the justice ministry said.
Hou Hsiao-hsien is considered one of the most important directors to come out of Taiwan, and is a testament to his moviemaking skills.
Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong insists that the law does not stifle free speech, but it is hard to see how the official narrative can be challenged if politicians exert such enormous power over the media.
Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong reshuffled his cabinet following an election win earlier this month that saw popular support for the ruling People’s Action Party fall near a record low.
Yet the election saw the prime minister being attacked by his own brother, Lee Hsien Yang, who criticized the government’s handling of the pandemic and the capabilities of the next generation of the PAP’s leaders.
Hsien-Hui Tong, head of venture investing at SGInnovate, said: “Medical non-adherence places a significant burden on healthcare systems.
Lee Hsien Yang is Li’s father.
On August 18, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong used martial language to justify a swathe of expensive new infrastructure projects to protect his island city-state.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison will also be focused on Australia's economy on Friday when discusses two-way trade and e-commerce rules at an annual leaders' meeting with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, in a letter dated the same day, congratulated the emperor for his "wise reign" and extended his best wishes to the octogenarian.
Singapore’s third, and current prime minister is Lee Hsien Loong, who also happens to be Lee Kuan Yew’s son.
The bill is widely expected to become law in the coming weeks because it has support from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s People’s Action Party, which has a supermajority in Parliament.
The Prime Minister then had pull-aside meetings with his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong and Chilean President Sebastian Pinera and exchanged views on strengthening bilateral relations.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at his office in Singapore Sunday evening in his first diplomatic outing of his visit to the country ahead of Tuesday’s landmark summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Common combinations with hsien
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: