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
- —前転跳びforward handspring (gymnastics)
- —前口動物protostome
- —前駆陣痛Braxton-Hicks contractions; practice contractions; false labor pains
- —午前零時midnight; 12am
- —大化前代period in the sixth and seventh centuries prior to the Taika reform
- —事前審査prescreen; pre-screening; prior inspection; preliminary review; pre-vetting
- —丹前風呂Tanzenburo (famous early Edo-period bathhouse)
- —前方一致left-hand match; begins-with match; matching a sub-string with the beginning of a field
- —未生以前before one's birth; before one was born
- —前年同期year-before period; corresponding period of previous year; same period a year ago
- —前年同月same period of last year; the same month a year ago; year-ago month
- —前後工程to and fro process; back and forth process; cooperative process; collaborative process
- —事前購入advance purchase (e.g. fare)
- —破産寸前near bankruptcy; edge of bankruptcy; bumper-to-bumper
- —事前予約advance reservation
- —死前喘鳴death rattle
- —上前頭回superior frontal gyrus
- —中前頭回middle frontal gyrus
- —下前頭回inferior frontal gyrus
- —子癇前症preeclampsia