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
- —前項に規定するprescribed in the preceding paragraph
- —ラファエル前派Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- —門前雀羅を張るto be (practically) deserted; to have no visitors; to set a sparrow net in front of the gate
- —新型出生前診断noninvasive prenatal testing; NIPT
- —公判前整理手続pretrial conference procedure; pretrial proceedings
- —事前購入割引運賃advance purchase excursion fare; APEX fare
- —前後の見境もなくwithout considering the consequences; recklessly; imprudently; going overboard
- —前立腺マッサージprostatic massage
- —前頭葉白質切截術lobotomy; leucotomy; frontal lobotomy; frontal leucotomy
- —臨兵闘者皆陣列在前may the presiders over warriors be my vanguard (nine-character charm chanted to ward off evil)
- —後門の虎、前門の狼between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire; a tiger at the back gate, a wolf at the front gate
- —前門の虎、後門の狼between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire; a tiger at the front gate, a wolf at the back gate
- —月経前不快気分障害premenstrual dysphoric disorder; PMDD
- —月経前不機嫌性障害premenstrual dysphoric disorder; PMDD
- —寒帯前線ジェット気流polar front jet stream
- —脳下垂体前葉ホルモンadenohypophyseal hormone
- —前車の覆るは後車の戒めlearn wisdom from the follies of others; learn from others' mistakes; the toppling over of the cart in front serves as a warning for the cart behind
- —門前の小僧習わぬ経を読むyou learn, without realising it, from what is around you; a shop-boy near the temple gate will recite sutras untaught
- —已前before; prior to; ago; the past; before; previously; former times
- —当前natural; right; proper; just; reasonable; appropriate; deserved; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly; deservedly; justly; of course