前

HSK 1#127 by frequencyradical 刂

qián["f","v"]

ago; before; front; forward; ahead; first; top (followed by a number); future; former; formerly; BC (e.g. 前293年)

Examples

车往前走。

The car was going forward.

请向前一步。

Please step forward.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.