前脚 (前腳)
qián jiǎo
Pinyin
Definition
前脚 (前腳)
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- one moment ..., (the next ...)
- leading foot (in walking)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 before
- 2 prior to
- 3 ago
- 4 previously
- 5 beforehand
- 1 before
- 2 formerly
- 3 previous
- 4 ago
- 1 front
- 2 forward
- 3 ahead
- 4 first
- 5 top (followed by a number)
- 6 future
- 7 ago
- 8 before
- 9 BC (e.g. 前293年)
- 10 former
- 11 formerly
- 1 previous generations
- 2 previous incarnation (Buddhism)
- 1 to come (formal)
- 2 before
- 3 previously
Idioms (20)
一往无前
- 1 to advance courageously (idiom)
- 2 to press forward
不听老人言,吃亏在眼前
- 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
不顾前后
- 1 regardless of what's before or after (idiom); rushing blindly into sth
五百年前是一家
- 1 five hundred years ago we were the same family (idiom) (said of persons with the same surname)
停滞不前
- 1 stuck and not moving forward (idiom); stagnant
- 2 in a rut
- 3 at a standstill