before; front

Builds 61 distinct compound words — ranked #40 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: ゼン
訓 kun: まえ

In front, and earlier. 午前 morning, 名前 a name, 以前 previously.

The ten most common compounds built on 前. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

61compounds built

2,777times those words occur

#67by productivity alone

#41by how often it turns up

Where 前 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 前. Each one opens its own map.

人person人前#1 者the one who前者#17 中middle; inside午前中#18 方direction; method; person前方#38 当hit; this; appropriate当たり前#66 名name; famous名前#80

Words built on 前

前#13925801,308 uses 名前なまえ463 uses

以前いぜん262 uses

お前おまえ201 uses

人前ひとまえ78 uses

午前中47 uses 午前ごぜん44 uses

当たり前あたりまえ30 uses

前進ぜんしん25 uses

前者ぜんしゃ22 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.