Kanji1 / 9
前 kanji
in front, before
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ゼン
Kun readings
まえ-まえ
Words with 前
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —前頭骨frontal bone (of the skull)
- —前庭球vestibular bulb; bulb of the vestibule
- —前成説preformation (theory)
- —前胸腺prothoracic gland
- —前頭筋frontalis muscle
- —前年比year on year; on the previous year
- —前意識preconscious (psychoanalysis)
- —前駆体(biochemical) precursor
- —備前焼Bizen ware (type of pottery)
- —車前子plantain seed
- —御前様person of high rank; nobleman; wife of a nobleman
- —前方端leading edge
- —前段階preliminary step; first step
- —前掲書(in the work) cited; aforementioned work; op. cit. (opere citato, opus citatum)
- —膣前庭vaginal vestibule; vulvar vestibule
- —前庭窓oval window; fenestra ovalis; fenestra vestibuli
- —前期比compared to previous period; quarter-to-quarter basis; from the previous quarter
- —前臼歯premolar
- —古備前Bizen sword (mid-Heian to early Kamakura periods); ancient Bizen ware (Kamakura to early Momoyama periods)
- —前月比month-to-month basis; month-over-month