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
- —前方互換性forward compatibility; upward compatibility
- —前年同月比compared to the same month the previous year (e.g. in statistics, sales, electricity usage)
- —就学前教育pre-school education
- —上顎前突症maxillary prognathism
- —前向性健忘anterograde amnesia
- —前立腺肥大enlargement of the prostate
- —前期高齢者young old (person between 65 and 74 years old)
- —出生前診断prenatal diagnosis; prenatal screening
- —水前寺のりSuizenji-nori (Aphanothece sacrum; edible freshwater algae grown in Fukuoka prefecture)
- —事前支払いpre-payment; advance payment
- —糖尿病前症prediabetes
- —肥前風土記Hizen Fudoki (description of the culture, climate, etc. of Hizen province; approx. 732 CE)
- —移植前処置conditioning regimen (prior to transplantation of bone marrow, stem cells, etc.)
- —事前指示書advance directive
- —前方再補給点forward arming and refueling point
- —前世紀の遺物relic from an earlier age; something extremely outmoded; museum piece
- —前立腺肥大症enlargement of the prostate
- —乾燥性前鼻炎rhinitis sicca anterior
- —臨界前核実験subcritical nuclear experiment
- —前帯状回皮質anterior cingulate cortex