Meaning of 前/meaning-of-くう in Japanese

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Definition of 前/meaning-of-くう

  1. (n) negative (static) charge; negative electric charge; (sometimes called "negative electricity")
  1. (n) positive electric charge; positive (static) charge; (sometimes called "positive electricity")
  1. (n, adj-no, n-suf, pref) previous; prior; former; some time ago; preceding

    その作家はどの位前になくなりましたか。
    How long ago did the author die?

  2. point (e.g. pencil); tip; end; nozzle

    1987年10月のある朝、スティーブン・ホーキングは自分のコンピューターの前に座っていた。
    One October morning in 1987, Stephen Hawking sat before his computer.

  3. head (of a line); front
  4. ahead; the other side
  5. the future; hereafter
  6. destination

    わぁあ〜〜っ!?隠してっ!前、隠してよっ!
    M-my goodness!? Cover-up! Cover yourself up!

  7. the other party
かわ(kawa) · がわ(gawa) ·

川河 Kanji Details

  1. (n) river; stream

    この川はあの川の3倍長い。
    This river is three times longer than that one.

  2. (suf) the .... river; (suffix used with the names of rivers)

    信濃川と阿賀野川ではどちらが長いですか。
    Which is longer, the Shinano River or the Agano River?

  1. (n-pref) the last (i.e. immediately preceding) (e.g. "the last mayor"); previous; one-time; former →Related words:
  2. (before the name of an era) pre- (e.g. "premodern")
  3. (adj-no, n) before; earlier
  1. (n-adv, n-t, suf) ago; before (some event); previously; (minutes) to (the hour) →Related words:
  2. in front (of); before (e.g. the house)
  3. head (of a line); front (e.g. of a bus); fore part
  4. in the presence of
  5. helping; portion →Related words: 人前
  6. privates; private parts
  1. (v5u, vt) to eat
  2. to live; to make a living; to survive
  3. to bite; to sting (as insects do)
  4. to tease; to torment; to taunt; to make light of; to make fun of
  5. to encroach on; to eat into; to consume
  6. to defeat a superior; to threaten a position
  7. to consume time and-or resources

    この事業は金を食う。
    This job eats money.

  8. to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event)
  9. to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time
  1. (n) positive electric charge; positive (static) charge; (sometimes called "positive electricity")
  1. (n) Halla okadai (species of eunicid worm used as fishing bait)
  2. (species of eunicid worm used as fishing bait) →Related words: 揺蚊
  3. red mite (i.e. a chigger) →Related words: 恙虫
  1. (n) (Buddh) ("like this"; often the opening word of a sutra) →Related words: 如是我聞
  2. ten thusnesses (in Tendai) →Related words: 十如是
ディーエッチ(diiecchi)
  1. (n) (designated hitter - baseball)
  1. (n) empty air; sky
  2. (Buddh) shunya (emptiness, the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phemomenon)
  3. air force →Related words: 空軍
  4. (n, adj-na) fruitlessness; meaninglessness
  5. void (one of the five elements) →Related words: 五大
  1. (n) locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; (feeling of hopelessness); being in a bind
  1. (n) miniature Chusan palm (Trachycarpus wagnerianus); (poss. Trachycarpus fortunei)
  1. (n) Gokturks; Sky Turks; Tujue; (powerful Turkic confederation from medieval Inner Asia)
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