空前

Chinese

		emptied; leisure; air emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain	before; in front; ago before; in front; ago; former; previous; earlier; front
simp. and trad. (空前)		空	前

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): kōngqián

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄥㄑㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hung¹ cin⁴
Min Nan (POJ): khong-chiân

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: kōngqián
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄥㄑㄧㄢˊ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kongchyan
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: hung¹ cin⁴
  - Yale: hūng chìhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hung¹ tsin⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: hung¹ qin⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /hʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡sʰiːn²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khong-chiân
  - Tâi-lô: khong-tsiân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qongcieen
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² t͡ɕiɛn²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰɔŋ³³ t͡ɕiɛn²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² t͡ɕiɛn¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡ɕiɛn²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡ɕiɛn²³/

Adjective

空前

unprecedented; as never before

Japanese

Kanji in this term
空	前
くう Grade: 1	ぜん Grade: 2
on’yomi

Noun

空前 (hiragana くうぜん, rōmaji kūzen)

being unprecedented
日本犯罪史上 (にほんはんざいしじょう)空 (くう)前 (ぜん)の惨劇 (さんげき)
Nihon hanzai shijō kūzen no sangeki
a tragedy unprecedented in the history of crime in Japan

Synonyms

未 (み)曽 (ぞ)有 (う) (mizou)
前 (ぜん)例 (れい)のない (zenrei no nai)

Derived terms

空前絶後 (くうぜんぜつご) (kūzenzetsugo)

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