前 (cin4 | qian2 jian3) : in front; before

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前

cin4

qian2 jian3

[1] front; in front; forward; before [2] previous; former; preceding; past; of earlier times [3] future [4] [v] advance; proceed; progress; precede

Stroke count: 9

Level: 1

Radical: 刀 (#18)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

前

Don't confuse with:
箭

This word has been viewed 25567 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 12th Jul 2009 07:33

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前日 cin4 jat6 qian2 ri4 = day before yesterday

之前 zi1 cin4 zhi1 qian2 = before; in front of

以前 ji5 cin4 yi3 qian2 = before; previously

從前 cung4 cin4 cong2 qian2 = once upon a time, before, formerly, in the past

向前 hoeng3 cin4 xiang4 qian2 = face forwards, ahead

前夕 cin4 zik6 qian2 xi1/4 (PRC/Taiwan) = eve; the night before

面前 min6 cin4 mian4 qian2 = directly in front

前面 cin4 min6 qian2 mian4 = in front

前天 cin4 tin1 qian2 tian1 = day before yesterday 國

前年 cin4 nin4*2/4 qian2 nian2 = year before last
See all 167 compounds (CantoDict reports 172 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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食飯前要先洗手。粵
One should wash one's hands before having a meal.

把遮喺門前面粵
The umbrella is in front of the door.
[前面＝前便]

咪郁啦!!你喺到郁嚟郁去我睇唔到前面呀。粵
Don't move!! I can't see the front when you keep moving.
[the meaning of 咪郁 and 唔好郁 is the same basically, but the young people would like to say 咪郁 more than 唔好郁.]

聖誕之前剩番廿三日買嘢咋粵
There are only 23 shopping days left until Christmas.

聖誕節之前只剩下二十三天買禮物了！國
There are only 23 shopping days left until Christmas.

以前呢度啲生意重做得下嘅，但而家就喎呵囉粵
Doing business here used to be all right, but now, it's over.

中國人嘅姓係放喺前面嘅。粵
Chinese put their surnames to the front.

中國而家開放過以前粵
China is now more open.
[Lit. China now open [in the sense of trade and culture] surpass before.]

前日有人搶佢件衫粵
The day before yesterday, someone stole his shirt.
[Lit. day-before-yesterday, have person steal he [counter] shirt.]

佢喺個帳篷前面等緊朋友粵
He's in front of a tent, waiting for his friend.
[Lit. He at [counter] camping-tent front-face waiting friend]

噴泉前面有一隻好靚嘅黑色貓粵
There's a beautiful cat in front of the fountain.
[Lit. fountain front-face have one [counter] beautiful [possessive particle] black-colour cat.]

以前有個經理咸濕佢粵
There was a manager who sexually harassed him before.
[Lit. before have [counter] manager sexually-harrass him]

前日佢哋一齊食咗兩餐飯。粵
They took their meal twice together the day before yesterday.
[Here, 餐 is [i]not[/i] a classifier that modifies the noun 飯. It is a verb measure that quantifies the verb 食.]

王先生要經廣州前往桂林。
Mr Wong wants to go to Guilin via Guangzhou.

月尾之前所有借讀嘅書籍必須歸還圖書館。粵
All books are to be returned to the library before the end of the month.

禁區前有落。粵
(Please) let me off before the no standing zone.
[said to minibus drivers]

佢噉嘅三板斧仲敢喺一哥面前自吹自擂? 粵
He is not capable but yet has the audacity to blow his trumpet before the master?

呢份工冇以前咁他條粵
This job is not as relaxed as the previous one.

咸豐年前嘅事你重攞嚟講粵
You are still bringing up things that happened so many years ago

危難中，"有子不需父上前"；搶險時，"上陣不離父子兵"。
A son would would protect his father and face the danger himself; but in times of emergency, both son and father would fight the battle together.

你似乎過份啲噃，喺咁多人面前噉奚落佢粵
You have gone too far, to ridicule her in front of so many people.

目前的金融海嘯可能成為黃金復興的契機
This economic tsunami could well be the turning point for gold to be fashionable again.

每晚臨瞓前，我一定會祈禱。粵
Everynight before I sleep, I must pray.

我攞咗兩個禮拜前喺廣城買嗰件衫去洗粵
I took the shirt I bought two weeks ago at the shopping mall to be cleaned.
[Lit. I took two weeks ago at shopping mall buy that shirt go clean]

我幾個月前見到有一盞又好光又非常之高嘅街燈喺草地上面粵
I saw a bright and really tall streetlight on the grass a few months ago.
[Lit. I several months before see-arrive have one [counter] and bright and very tall [possessive particle] streetlight located grass-floor on.]

兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買嗰件衫，我攞咗佢去熨。粵
I took the shirts that I bought two weeks ago at my favourite shop to be ironed.
[Note: although the verb and object could be separated by the lengthy adjective clause 兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買, it's more natural and more easily understood use the topicalised construction in this example.]

我隻腳有三粒蚊𧕴，好有可能係因為我前日去公園。粵
There are three bites on my leg... it's probably because I was in the park the day before yesterday.
[Lit. I [counter] leg have three mosquito-bites, very probable is because I day-before-yesterday go park]

佢之前係個監躉。粵
He was in jail before.
[[This is not very polite.]]

目前已經重開
Presently it's already reopened.

我攞咗兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買嗰件衫去熨粵
I've taken the shirt that I bought in my favourite clothes shop two weeks ago to be ironed.
[[literal] I taken-have two-weeks-ago in my most-like that-(classifier)-clothes-shop buy that-(classifier)-shirt go iron This Cantonese example shows how a relative clause is composed without a relative pronoun. ]

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