先sin1知zi1

English

1. a person of foresight
2. (verb) Aware
3. prophet
4. (religion) a prophet
5. to refer figuratively to a person who gets to know things very early or has a knack of accurately predicting the future

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 喺宗教層面，指一啲由神指派嘅領袖，負責傳達神嘅説話俾世人
2. 比喻一啲睇通睇透，先知先覺嘅人

Examples

• 得我先知阿湯唔開心。

  I was the only one there who knew that Tom was unhappy.

  Tatoeba · thesilhouette CC BY

• 過咗三日我先知原來佢失咗蹤。

  It was not until three days after that I knew she had disappeared.

  Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

• 點先知個病人係咪喺度咋病呀？

  How do you know that the patient is not feigning illness?

  Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

• 摩西同時係基督教同伊斯蘭教嘅先知。

  Moses is a prophet for both Christianity and Islam. ----

• 你話咗俾我聽之後，我先知呢份文件有幾咁緊要。

  I hadn't recognized the importance of this document until you told me about it.

  Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

• 小明真係先知嚟㗎，佢尋日話恆指今日會冧一千點，點知真係冧咗。

  John truly is a seer; yesterday he predicted that the Hang Seng Index would drop by 1000 points, and it did today!

• 今朝早我同個老婆有少少拗撬。我本來以為無乜嘢，去到夜晚見到佢咁嘅樣，先知原來我搞到佢好唔開心。

  This morning I had a bit of a disagreement with my wife. I didn't think it was a big deal, but seeing what she's like this evening I think I must have upset her.

  Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

• 嗰條友死咗十世啦，你唔係而家先知啊嘛。

  Tatoeba · thesilhouette CC BY