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The Universal Character Set
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Unicode name CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-524D
Codepoint U+524D

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[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

(radical 18 +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

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale chin4)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Noun

(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

(grade 2 kanji)

[edit] Readings


[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

(hangeul , revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn)

  1. front (direction)
  2. before



[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Hanzi

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


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(tiền, tèn)