Chinese mnemonics and annotator
Matthews
Compositions
Imjagpul's cantonese pronunciation
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前 cin4 in front of
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The Immortal positions himself in front of the cinerator, and dives into old memories of lovd ones... |
Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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Ch'ien is composed of 刀 tao knife as radical, with a contraction or corruption of the old form of this character, which was 止 chih to stop, over 舟 chou a boat. It means before, either of time or place. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
前
qián
front/forward/ahead/first/top (followed by a number)/future/ago/before/BC (e.g. 前293年)/former/formerly
Phrases ending with the given character
不bù
久jiǔ
前qián
not long ago
公gōng
元yuán
前qián
BCE (before the Common Era)/BC (before Christ)
到dào
目mù
前qián
up until now/to date
在zài
眼yǎn
前qián
now/at the present
欧歐ōu
车車chē
前前qián
psyllium (genus Plantago)
纪紀jì
元元yuán
前前qián
before the common era (BC)
西xī
元yuán
前qián
BCE (before the Common Era)/BC (before Christ)
头頭tóu
向向xiàng
前前qián
headlong