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
- —前鰓類prosobranchs
- —接合前prezygotic
- —使用前before use
- —前夜式wake
- —前日譚prequel; retrospective (talk, etc.)
- —前鋸筋serratus anterior muscle
- —御前橘Canadian dwarf cornel (Cornus canadensis); bunchberry dogwood; crackerberry
- —休前日day before a holiday
- —生前葬funeral performed for someone while they are alive; living funeral
- —前日談prequel; retrospective talk; (a) retrospective
- —花前線(cherry) blossom front; flower front
- —前々日two days before; day before yesterday
- —前打音appoggiatura
- —前景化foregrounding
- —神前式traditional Japanese wedding ceremony (usu. at a shrine or temple)
- —前々年two years before
- —前首相previous prime minister (immediately preceding the incumbent); former prime minister; ex-premier
- —午前休taking the morning off; time off during the morning
- —人前式nonreligious wedding ceremony; civil wedding ceremony
- —車前草plantain (esp. Asian plantain, Plantago asiatica)