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
- —前輪駆動front-wheel drive
- —風前の灯precarious situation; precarious state
- —前大統領previous president (immediately preceding the incumbent); former president
- —婚前交渉premarital sexual relations
- —前衛美術avant-garde art
- —前期試験midyear examinations
- —前傾姿勢forward-bent posture
- —火山前線volcanic front
- —寒帯前線polar front
- —前線部隊frontline troops
- —事前抑制prior restraint
- —前途多難having many difficulties in store; grim prospects
- —前途洋々with a rosy future; offering promising prospects
- —門前雀羅(a house) looking deserted with few visitors; sparrow net in front of the gate
- —餓死寸前being on the verge of starvation; being about to starve
- —御前試合contest held in the presence of a daimyo, shogun or the Emperor; match attended by the team's owner
- —史上空前unprecedented in history; unheard-of; epoch-making
- —事前工作preparatory operations; measure taken in advance; doing the groundwork
- —絶滅寸前Critically Endangered (conservation status); CE
- —前衛芸術avant-garde art