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
- —前哨戦Popular(preliminary) skirmish; prelude; preliminary encounter; warm-up match (e.g. before a final)
- —前年度Popularpreceding fiscal year
- —前半戦Popularfirst half of a game; first half of a match
- —前夜祭Popularevent held the night before another event; eve (of a festival) (e.g. Christmas Eve)
- —大前提Popularimportant condition; basic premise; basic assumption; something that should be obvious to all; something that should not have to be argued; something that goes without mentioning; major premise (in a syllogism)
- —最前列Popularfront row
- —前代未聞Popularunheard-of; unprecedented; unparalleled in history (unparallelled); record-breaking
- —門前払いPopularturning 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)
- —最前frontmost; a short time ago; a little while ago; just now
- —承前continued
- —食前before meals
- —前科previous conviction; criminal record; previous offense; previous offence
- —前額forehead
- —前官one's former post
- —前戯(sexual) foreplay
- —前駆outrider (person riding horseback in the lead position of a cavalcade); outriding; harbinger; herald; precursor; forerunner; foretoken; anticipation
- —前屈bend forward
- —前軍front-line troops
- —前掲above-mentioned; given above; previously shown
- —前景foreground