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
- —前官礼遇(being granted) the privileges of one's former (official) post
- —前後関係context (of a passage)
- —前虎後狼one calamity followed close on the heels of another; out of the frying pan into the fire; tiger in front, wolf in the back
- —前後撞着self-contradiction; self-inconsistency
- —前後矛盾self-contradiction; self-inconsistency
- —前時代的premodern; old-fashioned; outmoded; antiquated
- —前人未発unprecedented; unheard-of; never propounded (discovered, invented) by anyone before
- —前兆現象precursor; premonitory phenomena; telltale signs; advance warnings
- —前程万里a bright (rosy) future awaiting one; having the world before one
- —前途多望promising (rosy, bright) future; offering promising prospects
- —前途有為having a very promising future; offering promising prospects
- —崩壊寸前on the brink of collapse; in a state of near-collapse
- —門前成市having a constant stream of visitors; being thronged with callers
- —前帯状回anterior cingulate gyrus
- —匍匐前進crawling forward (on one's stomach)
- —前置胎盤placenta previa
- —対前年比relative change from last year
- —前言往行words and deeds of the people of yore
- —前庭神経vestibular nerve
- —産前産後before and after childbirth