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
- —前肢forefoot; forefeet; foreleg; forelimb
- —前徴omen; portent; sign; presage; harbinger; premonition; precursor; foreboding; presentiment
- —前篇first part (of a book, film, etc.); first volume; prequel
- —歿前prior to death; during one's lifetime
- —前前(one) before last; two before; two in front (e.g. rows)
- —前後策remedial measure; relief measure; corrective measure; countermeasure; remedy
- —前前回the time before last
- —ご霊前before the spirit of the deceased
- —門前払turning someone away (at the front door); refusing a visitor; shutting the door in someone's face; refusal of admission; rejecting without consideration; denying without substantial investigation; being chased away from a magistrate's office's gate (lightest punishment during the Edo period)
- —ご仏前before a Buddha or a mortuary tablet; offerings made to Buddha or placed on a mortuary tablet
- —腟前庭vaginal vestibule; vulvar vestibule
- —前前日two days before; day before yesterday
- —前前年two years before
- —事前払payment in advance; advance payment; prepayment
- —前人未踏untrodden (region, field of study, etc.); unprecedented (discovery, achievement, etc.)
- —ご前会議Imperial Council
- —風前之灯precarious situation; precarious state
- —前途洋洋with a rosy future; offering promising prospects
- —前後処置remedial measure; settlement (of matters); dealing with the aftermath
- —前立腺癌prostate cancer