Character Details
| in the past | Ascii: — | w575 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 从前 | cóngqián | cawng-tchee:en | 2+2 | 今 (now) + 后 (厂 cliff + 人 person) | 从前 link | ||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
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| - --Research Pending-- | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; time phrase | 从 (two people) + 前 (knife + body + one) | ||||||||||
| Two people (从) before (前) — long ago. | |||||||||||