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HSK
the day before yesterday
HSK 1
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  *前* | 前* | *前
front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 293) / former / formerly
HSK 1
front / the front side / in front of
HSK 1
the year before last
HSK 2
to leave for; to proceed towards; to go to
HSK 3
ahead / in front / preceding / above / also pr. [qian2 mian5]
HSK 3
to go forward / to forge ahead / to advance / onward
HSK 3
around / from beginning to end / all around / front and rear
HSK 3
in front / at the head / ahead / above
HSK 4
prospects / future outlook / journey
HSK 4
foreground / vista / (future) prospects / perspective
HSK 5
premise / precondition / prerequisite
HSK 5
ahead / the front
HSK 6
to come (formal) / before / previously
HSK 6
senior / older generation / precursor
HSK 7-9
to sway to and fro / to rock back and forth
HSK 7-9
front line / military front / workface / cutting edge
HSK 7-9
predecessor / ex- / former / ex (spouse etc)
HSK 7-9
(idiom) unprecedented
HSK 7-9
stage / proscenium / foreground in politics etc (sometimes derog.) / front desk / reception desk / (computing) front-end / foreground
HSK 7-9
eve / the day before
HSK 7-9
the former
HSK 7-9
preceding period / early stage
HSK 7-9
(military) forward position / frontier; cutting-edge; forefront
HSK 7-9
to advance dauntlessly in wave upon wave (idiom)
HSK 7-9
(idiom) unprecedented / unheard of
HSK 7-9
not long ago / not long before
HSK 7-9
forerunner / predecessor / precursor / previous incarnation (Buddhism) / jacket front
prefix (linguistics)
previous generations / previous incarnation (Buddhism)
preposition
prostate
former husband
front wheel
front / front end / forward part of sth
predecessor / forebears / the person facing you
preface; foreword; introduction; preamble / earlier remarks; earlier words / (literary) words of the ancient thinkers
vanguard / front line / a forward (sports)
to precede / to guide
(literary) to go forward
a few days ago / a few days before / the past few days / the previous few days
omen / prior indication / first sign
hanging in the balance / the future is hard to forecast / ¿Qué serà? / who knows what the future holds?
criminal record / previous convictions
one moment ..., (the next ...) / leading foot (in walking)
the very front
future (career etc) prospects
prelude (music)
farsightedness / perspicacity / prescience / forward-looking
front part / front section
Qianmen subway station on Beijing Subway Line 2
front door / main entrance / honest and upright approach (as opposed to 後門|后门, back-door or under the counter)
front courtyard / vestibule
lit. to fear the wolf in front and the tiger behind (idiom) / fig. to be full of needless fears / reds under the beds
antecedents
cause and effects (idiom); entire process of development
advanced guard / vanguard / avant-garde / forward (soccer position)
precursor / pioneer
unprecedented / never seen before
the past / impurity contracted previously (in the sentient world) (Buddhism)
anteroom / vestibule / lobby (of a hotel etc)
to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom) / all that has been achieved goes down the drain
to have boundless prospects
prostatitis
lit. a warning taken from the overturned cart ahead (idiom) / fig. lesson learned by observing others' failures
forearm
front courtyard / front yard
before / day before yesterday
to rock one's body backward and forward / to be convulsed (with laughter etc)
to have a future full of promise
front line (military)
skirmish
unheard-of; unprecedented
Former Liang, one of the Sixteen Kingdoms (314-376)
(acrobatics) front flip
Former Zhao of the Sixteen Kingdoms (304-329)
one falls, the next follows (idiom); stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades / advancing wave upon wave
premolar tooth (immediately behind canine teeth in some mammals)
headlight
Former Han dynasty (206 BC-8 AD), also called 西漢|西汉, Western Han dynasty
day before yesterday
to switch from arrogance to deference (idiom)
outpost / (fig.) front line
front row
the previous dynasty
a marriage predestined in a former life (idiom)
foremast
Qian Gorlos Mongol autonomous county in Songyuan 松原, Jilin
former love / former circumstances
ex-wife / late wife
past events / antecedent / what has happened
preconscious / preconsciousness
morning / a.m. / first half of the day
serratus anterior muscle (upper sides of the chest)
prelude / presage
former hatred / bygone enmity
Former Qin of the Sixteen Kingdoms (351-395)
previous life / previous incarnation
front wing (of insect)
human chest / breast

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