从前

Pinyin
cóngqián
English
before
HSK level
HSK 5

从前 is pronounced cóngqián and means “before”. It is one of the words in the HSK 5 vocabulary, a level of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s standardised Chinese proficiency test. Recognising a word on a page and recalling it when you need it are different skills, and only the second survives a conversation — which is why LexiTrail shows you 从前 again just before you would have forgotten it, rather than on a fixed schedule.

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