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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-524D
Codepoint	U+524D

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Noun 3.3 Adnominal 3.4 Kanji 3.4.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Hanzi 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

前 (radical 18 刀+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿月中弓 (TBLN), four-corner 8022₁)

1. in front, forward
2. preceding

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 140, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2011
• Dae Jaweon: page 318, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 248, character 4
• Unihan data for U+524D

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

前 (Yale chin4)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology

mape > maɸe > mawe > mae. Literally "before one's eyes". Compound of ma (“‘eye’”) and pe (“‘direction’”).

[edit] Noun

前 (hiragana まえ, romaji mae, historical hiragana まへ)

1. the front
2. the past

[edit] Adnominal

前の(まえの, maeno)

1. front (direction)
2. former

[edit] Kanji

前 (grade 2 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: ぜん (zen), せん (sen)
• Kun: まえ (mae), すすむ (susumu)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

前 (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn)

1. front (direction)
2. before

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Hanzi

前 (pinyin qián (qian2), shā (sha1), Wade-Giles ch'ien², sha¹)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

前 (tiền, tèn)