Character Details
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 以前 | yǐqián | ee-tchee:en | 3+2 | 以 (人 person + 丿 slash) + 外 (夕 evening + 卜 divination) | 以前 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
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| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Has this been a problem before? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; time phrase | 以 (by) + 前 (刂 knife + 月 body + 一) | ||||||||||
| By (以) the time before (前). | |||||||||||