| | front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293 年) / former / formerly | HSK 1 |
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| | front / the front side / in front of | HSK 1 |
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| | the day before yesterday | HSK 1 |
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| | the year before last | HSK 2 |
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| | ahead / in front / preceding / above / also pr. [qian2 mian5] | HSK 3 |
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| | to go forward / to forge ahead / to advance / onward | HSK 3 |
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| | to leave for; to proceed towards; to go to | HSK 3 |
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| | around / from beginning to end / all around / front and rear | HSK 3 |
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| | prospects / future outlook / journey | HSK 4 |
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| | in front / at the head / ahead / above | HSK 4 |
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| | foreground / vista / (future) prospects / perspective | HSK 5 |
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| | premise / precondition / prerequisite | HSK 5 |
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| | ahead / the front | HSK 6 |
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| | to come (formal) / before / previously | HSK 6 |
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| | (military) forward position / frontier; cutting-edge; forefront | HSK 7-9 |
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| | front line / military front / workface / cutting edge | HSK 7-9 |
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| | stage / proscenium / foreground in politics etc (sometimes derog.) / front desk / reception desk / (computing) front-end / foreground | HSK 7-9 |
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| | senior / older generation / precursor | HSK 7-9 |
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| | eve / the day before | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) unprecedented | HSK 7-9 |
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| | preceding period / early stage | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the former | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to advance dauntlessly in wave upon wave (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | predecessor / ex- / former / ex (spouse etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) unprecedented / unheard of | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to sway to and fro / to rock back and forth | HSK 7-9 |
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| | not long ago / not long before | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to place before / frontal; leading / pre- | |
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| | preface; foreword; introduction; preamble / earlier remarks; earlier words / (literary) words of the ancient thinkers | |
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| | the very front | |
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| | prefix (linguistics) | |
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| | future (career etc) prospects | |
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| | predecessor / forebears / the person facing you | |
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| | (literary) to go forward | |
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| | front / front end / forward part of sth | |
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| | former husband | |
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| | anteroom / vestibule / lobby (of a hotel etc) | |
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| | front row | |
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| | (idiom) unheard-of; unprecedented | |
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| | omen / prior indication / first sign | |
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| | forward-looking / prescient / foresight / forethought / outlook | |
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| | front wheel | |
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| | forward pass (sport) | |
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| | prequel | |
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| | Qianmen subway station on Beijing Subway Line 2 | |
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| | front door / main entrance / honest and upright approach (as opposed to 後門|后门, back-door or under the counter) | |
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| | forerunner / predecessor / precursor / previous incarnation (Buddhism) / jacket front | |
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| | lit. a warning taken from the overturned cart ahead (idiom) / fig. lesson learned by observing others' failures | |
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| | the previous dynasty | |
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| | the eve / the night before | |
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| | the road ahead | |
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| | precursor / pioneer | |
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| | antecedents | |
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| | ex-wife / late wife | |
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| | the past / impurity contracted previously (in the sentient world) (Buddhism) | |
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| | vanguard / front line / a forward (sports) | |
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| | outpost / (fig.) front line | |
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| | to precede / to guide | |
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| | previous generations / previous incarnation (Buddhism) | |
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| | to lean forward | |
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| | cause and effects (idiom); entire process of development | |
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| | to have boundless prospects | |
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| | one moment ..., (the next ...) / leading foot (in walking) | |
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| | criminal record / previous convictions | |
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| | front courtyard / front yard | |
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| | forelimb / foreleg | |
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| | one falls, the next follows (idiom); stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades / advancing wave upon wave | |
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| | headlight | |
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| | to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom) / all that has been achieved goes down the drain | |
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| | former hatred / bygone enmity | |
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| | day before yesterday | |
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| | forearm | |
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| | front courtyard / vestibule | |
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| | past events / antecedent / what has happened | |
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| | human chest / breast | |
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| | prelude / presage | |
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| | previous life / previous incarnation | |
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| | advanced guard / vanguard / avant-garde / forward (soccer position) | |
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| | Maeda (Japanese surname) | |
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| | Former Han dynasty (206 BC-8 AD), also called 西漢|西汉, Western Han dynasty | |
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| | forward patrol (military) (old) / (fig.) the top ranks | |
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| | former love / former circumstances | |
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| | Former Qin of the Sixteen Kingdoms (351-395) | |
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| | don't forget past events, they can guide you in future (idiom); benefit from past experience | |
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| | front line (military) | |
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| | to switch from arrogance to deference (idiom) | |
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| | fore hold (on ship) / bow cabin | |
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| | to rock one's body backward and forward / to be convulsed (with laughter etc) | |
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| | before today | |
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| | lit. the cart in front overturns, a warning to the following cart (idiom); fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor / learn from past mistake / once bitten twice shy | |
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| | (dialect) morning / forenoon | |
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| | precedent | |
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| | prostate | |
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| | aforestated / stated above / the preceding statement | |
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| | front part / front section | |
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| | antecedent (logic) | |
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| | appetizer; starter; hors d'oeuvre | |
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| | front part (of an object) / first part (of an event) / previous paragraph | |
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| | prelude (music) | |
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