ぜん
Meanings
Noun
1. front and rear; front and back; before and behind; back and forth
2. before and after
Adverb
Noun
Suffix
3. around; about; approximately
after a quantity, age, time, etc.
Noun
4. order; context
5. consequences
6. just when; around the time of
Noun
Verb (する)
7. inversion; reversion; getting out of order
8. co-occurring; happening at the same time
as 前後して
Kanji used
in front of
after
Pitch accent
んご
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Composed of
last (i.e. immediately preceding); previous; pre- (e.g. premodern); before; before; earlier
after
Used in vocabulary (9 in total)
unconsciousness; having no recollection of one's actions
to occur one after another; to happen in succession
context (of a passage)
self-contradiction; self-inconsistency
without considering the consequences; recklessly; imprudently; going overboard
self-contradiction; self-inconsistency
subsequently; additionally
to and fro process; back and forth process; cooperative process; collaborative process
Examples (4 in total)
Swing your arm back and forth.
The lamp was swinging back and forth.
When the bomb was dropped, I felt the house rock back and forth.