wǎng​qián

forward

往前 wǎng​qián
forward verb
moving toward the front or ahead in space

Please keep moving forward; don't block the entrance.

future verb
referring to time ahead or in the future

We should look forward and not dwell on past mistakes.

past directional
referring back to an earlier time or the past

Going back ten years from now, he was still in school.

Frequency

Written text
12.4 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)