前者
qián​zhě HSK7

the former

前者 qián​zhě
the former pronoun
The first of two people, things, or situations just mentioned; used in contrast to 后者 hòu​zhě.

前者是美式拼写，后者是英式拼写。

qián​zhě shì měi​shì pīn​xiě, hòu​zhě shì yīng​shì pīn​xiě.

The former is the American spelling, and the latter is the British spelling.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
1.40 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
18.5 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Antonym

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)