之前 zhīqián HSK4 before Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 之前 zhīqián before directional prior to a specific point in time or event; ago 他在吃饭之前洗了手。 tā zài chīfàn zhīqián xǐ le shǒu. He washed his hands before eating. previously directional at an earlier time in the past; beforehand 我之前在北京住过两年。 wǒ zhīqián zài Běijīng zhù guo liǎng nián. I lived in Beijing for two years before. Frequency Movie subtitles 452.7 per million appears in 82% of films Written text 176.4 per million Details HSK 3.0 Level 4 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
之前 zhīqián before directional prior to a specific point in time or event; ago 他在吃饭之前洗了手。 tā zài chīfàn zhīqián xǐ le shǒu. He washed his hands before eating. previously directional at an earlier time in the past; beforehand 我之前在北京住过两年。 wǒ zhīqián zài Běijīng zhù guo liǎng nián. I lived in Beijing for two years before. Frequency Movie subtitles 452.7 per million appears in 82% of films Written text 176.4 per million Details HSK 3.0 Level 4 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
