空前

Chinese

		emptied; leisure; air emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain	front, forepart; in front; past front, forepart; in front; past; former; previous; last; before; preceding; earlier; ago; future; time ahead; first; top; battlefront; to move forward
trad. (空前)		空	前
simp. ^#(空前)		空	前

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): kōngqián

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

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: kōngqián
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄥㄑㄧㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: kongcián
  - Wade–Giles: kʻung¹-chʻien²
  - Yale: kūng-chyán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kongchyan
  - Palladius: кунцянь (kuncjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hung¹ cin⁴
  - Yale: hūng chìhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hung¹ tsin⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: hung¹ qin⁴
  - Sinological 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
影響空前／影响空前 ― yǐngxiǎng kōngqián ― unprecedented impact

規模空前／规模空前 ― guīmó kōngqián ― unprecedented scale
- 這個戰爭，在東方歷史上是空前的，在世界歷史上也將是偉大的，全世界人民都關心這個戰爭。 [MSC, trad.]
  这个战争，在东方历史上是空前的，在世界历史上也将是伟大的，全世界人民都关心这个战争。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 1938, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論持久戰》 (On Protracted War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
  Zhège zhànzhēng, zài dōngfāng lìshǐ shàng shì kōngqián de, zài shìjiè lìshǐ shàng yě jiāng shì wěidà de, quánshìjiè rénmín dōu guānxīn zhège zhànzhēng. [Pinyin]
  The people of the whole world are attentively following this war, which has no precedent in the history of the East, and which will go down as a great war in world history too.

Derived terms

盛況空前／盛况空前
空前未有 (kōngqiánwèiyǒu)
空前盛況／空前盛况
空前絕後／空前绝后 (kōngqiánjuéhòu)

Japanese

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

Noun

空(くう)前(ぜん) • (kūzen)

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

Synonyms

未曽有(みぞう) (mizou)
前例(ぜんれい)がない (zenrei ga nai)

Derived terms

空前絶後(くうぜんぜつご) (kūzenzetsugo)

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