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前

qián

Traditional: 前

HSK 2
#228 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

in front, before (location)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 前

前

Examples

。

I am in front of you.

。

There is a road in front of my house.

。

Three years ago.

店diàn。

There is a bookshop up ahead.

。

We have met before.

前 (qián) means in front, before (location). It is used as a noun in everyday Mandarin speech.

Related words

到

to arrive; to (destination); result complement

地方

place, location, area

后

after, behind, later

下

below, down, under, next

之前

before, prior to

Appears in 3 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 前.

之前zhī qiánbefore, prior to以前yǐ qiánbefore, previously, in the past面前miàn qiánin front of, before (someone's face)

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This word is part of lesson 5.