1 old variant of 以[yǐ]

1 before

2 formerly

3 previous

4 ago

1 after

2 later

3 afterwards

4 following

5 later on

6 in the future

1 to think (i.e. to take it to be true that ...) (Usually there is an implication that the notion is mistaken – except when expressing one's own current opinion.)

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 a new year begins (idiom)

1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)

1 to advance courageously (idiom)

2 to press forward

1 one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short

2 in a nutshell

1 not to reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on the merits of the case rather than preference between advisers