I take back everything I said.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
前言
preface; foreword; introduction; preamble
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
preface; foreword; introduction; preamble
02
earlier remarks; earlier words
03
(literary) words of the ancient thinkers
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 前言 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 前言 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 前言.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 前言.
Directly before
- 撤回前言1
- 把前言1
Directly after
- 前言看1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 前言
What does 前言 mean in Chinese?
前言 (qiányán) means preface; foreword; introduction; preamble.
How do you pronounce 前言?
前言 is pronounced qiányán.
Is 前言 an HSK word?
前言 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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