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
- —前巻previous volume
- —前層presheaf; anterior layer
- —前漢Former Han dynasty (of China; 206 BCE-9 CE); Western Han dynasty
- —前妻ex-wife; former wife; previous wife
- —術前preoperative (preparation, diagnosis, etc.)
- —前出aforementioned; above-mentioned; given above; previous
- —婚前premarital; prenuptial
- —没前prior to death; during one's lifetime
- —筑前Chikuzen (former province located in the west of present-day Fukuoka Prefecture)
- —前程the journey before one; distance one has to travel
- —前房anterior chamber (of the eyes)
- —前罪previous conviction
- —前室front room; front parlor; lobby; anticum; anterior ventricle
- —前仏Buddha prior to Gautama; Gautama Buddha; Shakyamuni
- —前廊porch; portico; colonnaded entranceway; ante-hall
- —前嚢anterior capsule (ophthalmology)
- —前医one's previous doctor
- —前壁anterior wall; front wall
- —前泊spending one night ahead (e.g. at a hotel near the airport the night before catching a flight); spending the night before
- —前窓front window; windshield