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There are 13 total results for your 前に search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

前に

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 maeni
    まえに
(adverb) ahead; before; ago

以前に

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 izenni
    いぜんに
(adverb) ago; since; before; previously; heretofore; earlier

夏前に

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 natsumaeni
    なつまえに
(adverb) before summer

前に進む

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 maenisusumu
    まえにすすむ
(exp,v5m) to move forward; to move on

前にすすむ

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 maenisusumu
    まえにすすむ
(exp,v5m) to move forward; to move on

ずっと前に

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 zuttomaeni
    ずっとまえに
(expression) a long time ago

事前に必要

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 jizennihitsuyou / jizennihitsuyo
    じぜんにひつよう
(adjectival noun) prerequisite

左前になる

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 hidarimaeninaru
    ひだりまえになる
(exp,v5r) (See 左前・2) to go downhill (e.g. for one's business); to be badly off (economically)

神前に誓う

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 shinzennichikau
    しんぜんにちかう
(exp,v5u) to pledge before God

一人前になる

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 ichininmaeninaru
    いちにんまえになる
(exp,v5r) to come of age; to become an adult; to become fully qualified; to stand on one's own

名前による代入

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 namaeniyorudainyuu / namaeniyorudainyu
    なまえによるだいにゅう
{comp} assignment by name

前に述べたように

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 maeninobetayouni / maeninobetayoni
    まえにのべたように
(expression) as discussed previously; as mentioned above

Variations:
前に進む
前にすすむ

see styles
 maenisusumu
    まえにすすむ
(exp,v5m) to move forward; to move on
This page contains 13 results for "前に" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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