Japanese Word Entry

事前
Kana:じぜん
Romaji:jizen
Definition: prior, beforehand, in advance, before the fact, ex ante

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Chinese characters used in this word

matter, thing, fact, business, reason, possibly, affair, to serve, accident, incident
Readings
Mandarin: ㄕˋ (shì), ㄗˋ (zì)
Cantonese: si6
Japanese: ジ (ji)、 ズ (zu)、 シ (shi) / こと (koto)、 つか.う (tsukau)、 つか.える (tsukaeru)、 こととする (kototosuru)
Korean: 사 (sa)
Vietnamese: sự
Variants
Semantic variant form:

in front, before, forward, preceding
Readings
Mandarin: ㄑㄧㄢˊ (qián), ㄐㄧㄢˇ (jiǎn)
Cantonese: cin4
Japanese: ゼン (zen)、 セン (sen) / まえ (mae)、 -まえ (-mae)、 すすむ (susumu)
Korean: 전 (jeon)
Vietnamese: tiền