qián​miàn HSK3

ahead

前面 qián​miàn
ahead directional
located in front of or further forward in physical space

He is walking at the very front of the procession.

preceding directional
occurring earlier in time or mentioned previously in a text

Please refer to the examples mentioned above.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
64.3 per million appears in 24% of films
Written text
56.3 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 3

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT